HUMANITIES APPROACHES TO GRAPHICAL DISPLAY
Johanna Drucker, 2011
Publication
Digital Humanities Quarterly 5.1
Critical Visualization, Digital Humanities, Epistemology
Drucker's distinction between data — the given — and capta — the taken — is one of those arguments that is impossible to un-read. Once you accept that a dataset is not found but made, every chart in the field looks different. The essay is dense, and the alternative graphics she proposes are closer to sketches than to solutions.
Edited by Kim Albrecht on the 2026-09-13.