Drawing on Charles S. Peirce’s notions of “diagram” and “diagrammatic reasoning,” in combination with Gilbert Simondon’s notion of “operation,” I sketch out a notion of scientifi c evidence where image-guided applications play an active role as externalized “norms” that regulate the relation between objects and observers. Taking my point of departure from this “norm-setting” function of Image-guided applications, I proceed to discuss the in connections between imaging and measuring. The idea is that both qualitative, observation methods and quantitative, measurement methods are “diagrammatic” and that, in both cases, the acquisition of information is obtained through a diagrammatic form of reasoning. I substantiate this argument by examples from Image-guided neurosurgery.
Aud Sissel Hoel is professor of media studies and visual culture in the Department of Art and Media Studies at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Currently she is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the Humboldt University of Berlin, affi liated with the Interdisciplinary Laboratory „Image, Knowledge Gestaltung“. Hoel has published widely in the overlapping fi elds of visual studies, science studies and media philosophy.
Moderation: Dr. Nicola Mößner (University of Münster)