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Professor of Contemporary Archaeology @UniofOxford • Curator @Pitt_Rivers • Fellow @StCrossCollege • Tutor Art/Anthropology • Literary Agent: @CBrotherstone

May 16, 2018, 42 tweets

Was thinking of starting a small series with the hashtag #WorstAcademicDiagrams but worried that they'd all end up being from Bruno Latour articles.

Prompted by this diagram, which has really got to me this afternoon #WorstAcademicDiagrams

...but of course I know that there's much worse out there, like this with is also from Latour #WorstAcademicDiagrams

I often love diagrams in academic writing, but Latour's do always grate with me. Here's another classic. #WorstAcademicDiagrams

This really has to be one of the worst academic diagrams of all time, surely? #WorstAcademicDiagrams #Latour

"Model of the Social Totality" 😶
#WorstAcademicDiagrams

"Five loops have to be taken into account simultaneously for a realistic rendering of science" #WorstAcademicDiagrams

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Got to hand it to the true masters of this form. #WorstAcademicDiagrams #DeleuzeandGuattari

"The Pole Arm of Archaeology" (1977) #WorstAcademicDiagrams

What if no one had ever felt the need to draw this diagram? #WorstAcademicDiagrams

This diagram has a lot to answer for 😶 #WorstAcademicDiagrams

Totally gutted that it's been more than 16 hours since this thread started and I still haven't had one email from publishers offering a contract for a Cultural Studies Mindfulness Colouring Book. #WorstAcademicDiagrams

🐉🐉🐉🐉🐉‼️😬 #WorstAcademicDiagrams #JordanPeterson

Foucault redrawing Magritte (seriously) #WorstAcademicDrawings

"An Archaeological Field" #WorstAcademicDiagrams

"The Locus of Culture" (1959) #WorstAcademicDiagrams

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