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On 4 January 1971, Ti-Grace Atkinson delivered a talk entitled 'Strategy and Tactics: A Presentation of Political Lesbianism'. The talk was later published in her collected essays, Amazon Odyssey. The essay contains thirty-five diagrams: ten 'Strategy Charts', three 'Tactical Charts' and twenty-two 'Tactical-Strategy Charts', which map a strategy of the 'Oppressor' (men) and the tactics that the 'Oppressed' (women) might develop to lead to a revolution – lesbians, significantly, are the 'Buffer Zone' between these two classes. In the only reference I have managed to find to these diagrams, they are referred to as 'crazy'. This article re-visits these diagrams, exploring the role of the diagram in how Atkinson attempts to map patriarchal relations and also imagine a feminist revolution. Taking Atkinson's diagrams as a starting point, the article then uses them to begin to narrate a genealogy of the diagram in feminist theory, exploring a diagrammatic imaginary that is an often-used but rarely discussed tactic in feminist writing. Finally, the article opens out to consider how this history of feminist diagrams might be a precursor to more contemporary feminist data visualisations.

With the advent of desktop publishing systems and user-friendly computer software, there is an increasing trend for educators and trainers to produce their own instructional material. This study provides guidelines for the design of basic, sound and unconfusing instructional diagrams.

The idea of the diagram as a 'working object' is used to discuss the biologist C. H. Waddington's epigenetic landscape (EL) diagrams. This article investigates the diagrams' history and discusses their usages in relation to Stengers's idea of the 'nomadic concept'. What is it about these diagrams that have made them a tool for transdisciplinary research? The article argues that it is useful to distinguish between the diagram and the illustration, and that it is in part because the EL diagrams retain an illustrative graphic character that they have been apt for imaginative adaptation and reuse. The diagram in this case becomes an 'ontological go-between' that is thereby able to function in different contexts, such as sociology and anthropology.

Klappentext: Arising from the need to go beyond the semiotic, cognitive, epistemic and symbolic reading of diagrams, this book looks at what diagrams are capable of in scholarly work related to the social sciences. Rather than attempting to define what diagrams are, and what their dietic capacity might be, contributions to this volume draw together the work diagrams do in the development of theories. Across a range of disciplines, the chapters introduce the ephemeral dimensions of scientist's interactions and collaboration with diagrams, consider how diagrams configure cooperation across disciplines, and explore how diagrams have been made to work in ways that point beyond simplification, clarification and formalization.