A Diagram is an Image that Works

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Diagrammatic Writing

(2013) · Drucker, Johanna

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Design principles for care-centered systems
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Cross-scale frameworks linking spatial patterns, diagrams, and simplicity as expressions of care in design.
Geometric concept representations in neural networks
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Concepts encoded as curved manifolds and circular structures in LLM activation spaces.
Relational semantics through spatial and narrative representation
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Frameworks treating meaning-making as emergent from relational configurations—spatial diagrams, image schemas, and narrative structures—rather than essential properties, drawing on systems theory and cognitive linguistics.

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A diagram is an image that works. It spatializes semantic value, using the graphic features of spatial organization to express the semantic value of relations.concept0.899
Definitive statement of diagrammatic reasoning as a meaning-producing system based on spatial organization.
Diagrams can be understood as a strategy to deal with the structural complexity of the apparatus, enabling the creation of new games.claim0.811
Following Flusser’s challenge, the paper claims that cybernetic diagrams are meta-tools for designing new rule systems.
A diagram spatializes semantic value using graphic features of spatial organization to express relationsclaim0.787
image (schemata)concept0.779
Mental pictures, ideas, or rules that people use to guide their actions in building.
how do diagrams relate to this play with apparatus?question0.779
Explicit question posed by Veloso to frame the investigation of cybernetic diagrams as strategies for engaging with black-box devices.
the diagram suggests a game strategy in which the rules of the device stimulate the modification of the game as it unfolds in favor of improvisation and noveltyquote0.776
Veloso’s interpretation of the Fun Palace diagram as an open-game infrastructure that encourages emergent play.
cybernetic diagramconcept0.750
Graphical notation representing information flows and systemic interactions, derived from cybernetics and information theory, distinct from semiotic diagrams.
diagrammatic reasoningconcept0.748
The cognitive process of understanding spatial-graphical organization as meaning-producing.