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Joy and Fear, Modern Man in the Making

Two essential books for anyone interested in data visualization and information design. In “Joy and Fear”, the Austrian architect, illustrator and writer Theo Deutinger continues Otto Neurath's groundbreaking 1939 analysis “Modern Man in the Making” by using Neurath's pioneering visual language, which he called the ISOTYPE, to bring Neurath's evolutionary narrative up to date. “Modern Man” sought to chronicle the evolution of man from an agricultural to an industrial society by interpreting data that was becoming increasingly available at the time with the development of new mass media. For his part, Deutinger contextualises Neurath’s grand narrative of “progress”, demonstrating the promises and failures of modernity while also updating Neurath’s study with contemporary data on subjects as diverse as warfare and the welfare state.

Two essential books for anyone interested in data visualization and information design. In “Joy and Fear”, the Austrian architect, illustrator and writer Theo Deutinger continues Otto Neurath's groundbreaking 1939 analysis “Modern Man in the Making” by using Neurath's pioneering visual language, which he called the ISOTYPE, to bring Neurath's evolutionary narrative up to date. “Modern Man” sought to chronicle the evolution of man from an agricultural to an industrial society by interpreting data that was becoming increasingly available at the time with the development of new mass media. For his part, Deutinger contextualises Neurath’s grand narrative of “progress”, demonstrating the promises and failures of modernity while also updating Neurath’s study with contemporary data on subjects as diverse as warfare and the welfare state.

varied, varied

376 pages, 317 illustrations

2 books (1 Hard-, 1 paperback)

2024, Isotype Bundle, English
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CHF 85.00

Theo Deutinger

Theo Deutinger (*1971) is an architect, writer and curator. He is the founder and head of The Department (TD), a practice that combines architecture with research, visualization and artistic thinking. With TD he works at all scales from global planning, spatial master plans, architecture to graphic and curatorial work. Deutinger is known for his theoretical writings on the transformation of European urban culture, and his socio-cultural studies such as the “Handbook of Tyranny.” His work has been shown at the Design Biennale Kwangju (2011), the 14th Venice Architecture Biennale (2014) and the Storefront for Architecture in New York (2019), among others. Theo Deutinger lives and works in Austria.

Otto Neurath

Otto Neurath (1882–1945) was an Austrian-born political economist, sociologist and philosopher of science. Throughout his life, Neurath pursued his political vision of a new, egalitarian world community, which he sought to promote through the development of a universally understandable presentation of information.

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