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It has become, by now, a widely common façon de parler that the dominant mode of information has been undergoing a profound change from written language based codes to visual or iconic forms. The consequences though, attached to this typical tres longue durée process, show a surprising diversified spectrum, ranging from the coming of new technological paradises1 to their appropriate secularized counterparts.2
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See e.g., H. Rheingold, Virtual Reality. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1992.
Compare as an alternative bestseller to the global contrary, namely N. Postman, Wir amüsieren uns zu Tode. Urteilsbildung im Zeitalter der Unterhaltungsindustrie. Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer, 61987.
J. Domsich, Visualisierung,op. cit., 1991, pp.176–185.
O. Neurath, Gesammelte bildpädagogische Schriften,op. cit., 1991, p.655ff.
J. Domsich, Visualisierung,op.cit., 1991, p.14.
Neurath’s encyclopedic project has, however, never reached its intended stage of take off,but has been terminated after Neurath’s death in 1945. For a still impressive summary of the first and introductory phase, see O. Neurath, R. Carnap, Ch.W. Morris (eds.), Foundations of the Unity of Science. Toward an International Encyclopedia of Unified Science,2 vol. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, ‘1971.
O. Neurath, International Picture Language. London: Kegan, Trench, Trubner and Co., 1936, p. 50.
Ibid., p.73.
Ibid., p.20.
For a survey on Neurath’s encyclopedic efforts, see e.g. K.H. Müller, Enzyklopädie, Lebenslagen, Bildstatistik, Roman. Das Forschungsprogramm des Otto Neurath. Wien: IHS-Research Memorandum, 1989.
For a brief glance of Neurath’s sociological work which stresses, above all, the closeness to the conceptual and the methodological framework to the later writings of Ludwig Wittgenstein, see e.g. K.H. Müller, “Neurath’s Theory of Pictorial-Statistical Representation”, in: Th.E. Uebel, (ed.), Rediscovering the Forgotten Vienna Circle. Austrian Studies on Otto Neurath and the Vienna Circle. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1991, pp. 223–251.
On this term, see esp. R. Haller, “Das Neurath-Prinzip. Grundlagen und Folgerungen”, in: R. Haller, Fragen zu Wittgenstein und Aufsätze zur österreichischen Philosophie. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1986, pp. 108–124.
O. Neurath, Gesammelte bildpädagogische Schriften op .cit., 1991, p.283f.
Ibid., p.346.
J. Domsich, Visualisierung,op.cit., 1991, p.184.
On this process, see e.g. A.M. Galaburda, (ed.), From Reading to Neurons. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1989.
J. Domsich, Visualisierung,op.cit., 1991, p.l l lff.
See e.g., E. Barrett, (ed.), The Society of Text. Hypertext, Hypermedia, and the Social Construcdon of Information. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1989.
Voltaire, Candide oder die beste Welt. München: DTV, 1969, p. 139.
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Müller, K.H. (1993). Neurath, Otto, Gesammelte bildpädagogische Schriften. Hg. von Rudolf Haller und Robin Kinross. Wien: Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky 1991. Domsich, Johannes, Visualisierung — Ein kulturelles Defizit? Der Konflikt von Sprache, Schrift und Bild. Wien: Böhlau 1991. In: Stadler, F. (eds) Scientific Philosophy: Origins and Developments. Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook [1993], vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2964-2_20
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