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.
This thread is meta because it’s not clear at all what your point is
presentations argue for more creative, expressive, and understandable approaches to computing in a way that is creative, expressive, and understandable, and uses a computer
"He showed it around to publishers, who insisted on redesigning many pages in the book, and imagined it as a niche title, only worth printing a couple thousand copies. Frustrated, Tufte took out a second mortgage on his home at 18 percent interest to print the book himself."
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