Unknown Erasures. Ovvero, perché le iscrizioni scientifiche non possono assurgere a icone culturali.

Delving into the case of the image of the sleeve of Unknown Pleasures, first record released by UK post–punk band Joy Division, the article reconstructs the genealogy of its sleeve’s image in order to account for how it has arisen to cultural icon. Through this genealogy, the article also shows the different ways in which scientific inscriptions and cultural icons work, by referring to Bruno Latour’s reflection about inscriptions, scientific visualizations, immutable mobiles and modes of existence