ABSTRACT
The practice of law today is awash with pictures of all kinds - from those that begin conceptually like graphs, diagrams or flow charts to those that originate in perception, like photographs, or those that emerge from the actions of technology, like animations and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). The legal academy has yet seriously to come to grips with the changes that this infusion of the visual means for legal thinking and rhetoric. The chapter explores the intellectual implications of picturing in a discipline that has thought of itself as pre-eminently about the use of words and their linear logics. It provides with reflections on some benefits that adjustments to one's understanding might give to legal thinkers. Words and pictures as perceptions both represent just dataflow coming in from outside to be understood by the brain and processed for meaning.
