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Diagrams, especially interactive, rhizomatic ones like Son's 'rhizomatic motherboard', challenge traditional data visualisation norms by turning static charts into dynamic, interconnected maps. Unlike dashboards or classification-driven graphs, these diagrams emphasise emergence, fuzziness and mutual causality. Treating the connecting nodes as active elements rather than fixed data points emphasises the importance of non-hierarchical, networked representations, and illustrates how diagrams can become lively and inclusive infrastructures. +
Through her own practice, Morgane’s inquiry blurs the line between critique and performance. By hosting two podcasts and maintaining a presence across multiple platforms, including Substack, Instagram and YouTube, she doesn’t just study the dynamics of online visibility — she embodies them.
Her tone shifts from theoretical to personal, revealing a methodological agility attuned to platform aesthetics. By tapping into the systems she critiques, Morgane challenges the divide between observer and participant, and between content and critique. Rather than resolving this tension, her work inhabits it, showcasing the messy, strategic entanglement of intellectual labour and platform capitalism. This is a form of research that is experienced and performed as much as it is written: a vulnerable and incisive mode of enquiry that is shaped from within the infrastructures it studies. +
In an age where information circulates endlessly, is remixed and is decontextualised, developing visual citation methods is not just a matter of giving credit; it is an urgent way of taking relational accountability. The hypertextual nature of our digital environments is full of hidden lineages: sources, references and contextual cues that are often obscured by flat, linear design conventions. Experimental approaches such as Vanish Pointer reclaim these overlooked dimensions, rendering citation as a spatial, visual and navigable architecture, not just metadata. By reimagining interfaces as relational terrains, such tools encourage users to think critically about how knowledge is structured, traced and performed, transforming acts of reading, browsing and linking into moments of situated awareness.
In doing so, they foreground citational relationality — an understanding of citation as an active, situated practice that reveals the networks of dependency, influence and care underpinning digital knowledge, rather than as a static reference. +
In Slip of the Tongue, Feline Artz considers tools to be open to revision and shaped by use and collective learning. She invites audiences to “not follow her plan blindly. Learning only happens when we continuously adapt and shift our tools and methods”. This invitation to adapt and remake the cards reflects the project's interest in practices that resist fixed categories and final solutions. It's the unstable character of the cards-as-cues that make the project infinitely applicable to different settings; audiences and disciplines. +
Nadel’s tool makes the process of encoding a message visible and hands-on. You type something in, see it turned into a pattern, and can imagine carrying it with you as embroidery. It makes information feel like something shaped by rules that we can learn to read and work with, opposed to it disappearing into the void of a device or platform. The tool makes digital literacy tangible by letting audiences practise encryption and consider how, and where, they want to keep their information. +
Textum Club adds a space for fashion to be read, discussed, and questioned through writing and shared research. Its archive brings together perspectives that can be harder to encounter in fashion cultures centred on images, trends, and commercial narratives, while its exhibitions and workshops let those ideas meet practice. The collaborative effort offers an ongoing, locally rooted contribution to wider conversations about what fashion is and what it can become. +
A productive tension emerges between the essay’s description of unequal systems of aesthetic control and its sweeping assertion that 'we are all cyborgs'. This highlights the profound impact of technology on contemporary life, prompting the question of whether everyone experiences this condition with the same agency or exposure to harm. This question is also relevant to Oftechne.ink, which combines two elements: an exploration of the cyborg as a metaphor and an experimental publishing space driven by code. Built and maintained independently, the site incorporates its mode of circulation into its argument: it is digital, open-source and self-directed. +