Diagrammatic Writing (2013)

• Subordination

  introduces
  Attribute: spatial positioning that signals inferiority, using lower positioning or smaller size.
• Surrounding

  introduces
  Attribute: a higher level of aggression in containment, fully encircling a text, limiting egress.
• Attach

  introduces
  Attribute: connecting one text to another, sometimes driven by desire.
• Branching alternative

  introduces
  Bibliographical element: an optional text path that splits from the main line, potential for infinite proliferation.
• Bridge

  introduces
  Bibliographical element: a connecting line that arches from one position to another, creating continuity while allowing subsidiary relations.
• Bridging

  introduces
  Dynamic condition: forming a bridge line connection in a fluid screen space.
• Closing

  introduces
  Dynamic condition: ending a branch or closing a frame.
• Commentary

  introduces
  Bibliographical element: dialogic or antagonistic text, rarely indifferent, intervening within the space of the work.
• Complement

  introduces
  Attribute: an attempt at parity, placing elements side by side as equals, though often failing.
• Depend

  introduces
  Attribute: attachment with issues of reliance, a text depending on another for meaning.
• Domination

  introduces
  Attribute: an overt power move in layout, asserting primacy through scale, placement, or boldness.
• Drilling

  introduces
  Dynamic condition: penetrating into deeper layers of a text, entering nested frames.
• Dripping

  introduces
  Dynamic condition: a gradual, piecemeal appearance of text.
• Dropping down

  introduces
  Dynamic condition: a menu-like reveal of subordinate content.
• Each other element (primary move)

  introduces
  Primary move: the dynamics of unfolding and enfolding of elements within the system.
• Embrace

  introduces
  Attribute: an act of protective or aggressive enfolding, holding a text in a relation of security or captivity.
• Engagement

  introduces
  Attribute: exchange, entering into a relation of dialogue or contest.
• Enlarging

  introduces
  Dynamic condition: increasing scale to assert importance.
• Extenuation

  introduces
  Attribute: any conditional refinement, a softening or complicating of a statement.
• Header / footer

  introduces
  Bibliographical element: pointers and labels, sometimes frames that orient or direct reading.
• Linking

  introduces
  Dynamic condition: establishing a connection through hyperlinks or cross-references.
• Negation

  introduces
  Attribute: an extreme attempt at undermining, actively contradicting or nullifying a text.
• Note

  introduces
  Bibliographical element: an explanatory or dialogic subordinate text, often linked to a main text.
• Obliterate

  introduces
  Attribute: a heavy overlay that nearly destroys the underlying text.

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• Alignment

  mentions
  The goal of making model behavior match human values and intentions, often addressed during post-training.
• Entanglement

  introduces
  Less hierarchical than embedment; multiple texts work into and out of each other, creating associations across levels and connecting any single text to the matrix of all others.
• Johanna Drucker

  authored
  Author of this treatise on diagrammatic writing and graphical semantics; establishes the theoretical framework for spatial rhetoric.
• Embedment

  introduces
  Technique where text is nested hierarchically within another, using indentation and margins to create subordinate orders of detail within an overarching embrace.
• hierarchy

  mentions
  An ordering of texts via spatial cues like indentation, size, and placement, implying importance.
• asymmetry

  mentions
  Deliberate off-balance that creates dynamic tension, as opposed to closed, symmetrical harmonies.
• linearity

  mentions
  The sequential, continuous order of text, often challenged by diagrammatic branching.
• White Space

  mentions
  The charged, active areas between and around text elements, differentiating wordspace from worldspace.
• dynamic field

  mentions
  The conception of the page as a site of continuous vectorial forces and emergent relations.
• Enframement

  introduces
  The act of surrounding a secondary text with a primary text, creating ambiguity between protective embrace and imperial possession.
• equilibrium

  mentions
  A state of balance among forces, creating an appearance of stasis; can be symmetrical or dynamic.
• Proximity

  mentions
  Powerful structural force in diagrams; controls associations and semantic relations between elements.
• spatialization

  mentions
  The translation of semantic values into spatial coordinates and relations.
• stasis

  mentions
  The illusion of fixed stability produced by choices of layout, masking the underlying dynamics.
• Vectorial Force

  mentions
  The directional tension and energy within the layout, giving the page dynamic qualities.
• wordspace

  mentions
  The interior domain of the text, the space of inscription.
• worldspace

  mentions
  The exterior domain outside the text block, the surrounding world.
• agonistic struggle

  mentions
  The competitive tension among elements on a page, each vying for attention and primacy.
• association

  mentions
  Connections made across texts by recollection, probability, and spatial proximity, not linear sequence.
• cross-reference

  mentions
  Explicit textual or graphical links between parts of a work, dynamic and virtual.
• diagrammatic reasoning

  mentions
  The cognitive process of understanding spatial-graphical organization as meaning-producing.
• finitude

  mentions
  The illusion that the page is a bounded, limited space, contradicted by associative infinitude.
• Gutter

  mentions
  The inner margin essential for book structure, a site of containment and potential intervention.
• legibility

  mentions
  The quality that enables reading; can be maintained even under extreme diagrammatic experimentation.

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