Has anyone ever tried to construct cluster maps of essential reads at the cores of all canons together? Ie instead of using terms like “Greek classics”, “enlightenment thinkers”, “critical theory”, “Frankfurt school” just a graph of “people who cite this cite this also”
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Replying to @vgr
If you get a script that scrapes wikipedia's 'Influences' and 'Influenced' lists you could get pretty far in this.
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I do a version of this with musicians- after a while I found the influences pages too clunky and found it better to look for direct quotes. more meaningful signal, less chaotic “everyone influenced everyone” noise https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1152310117863325698?s=21 …https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1152310117863325698 …
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This is genealogy, a tighter subgraph of canonicity, though not quite since sometimes genealogical links can cross canon boundaries
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