Today I relished Unflattening by —a dissertation-as-comic on the power of graphic communication to delinearize multifaceted topics, convey nuance, balance the analytical.
It's a great instance of self-exemplifying media: using comics to present complex ideas on comics.
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What are some other great instances of self-exemplifying media?
Understanding Comics by also uses comics to explicate comics
Gödel, Escher Bach presents an exploration of twisting, self-referential representations in twisting, self-referential prose.
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Meaningness.com (by ) uses a fuzzy, non-hierarchical hypertext structure to present arguments about the essential fluidity of everything.
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describes how to present information clearly and efficiently in books whose pages have themselves been meticulously designed to exemplify those practices.
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Interesting! is close to what I'm building using Roam as a CMS for a personal site.
Calling it a [[wiki blog]] — is there anything better out there as a name yet? There are some interestingly different principles when any of the pages may update over time.
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