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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. +