Self-exemplifying media

  • Unflattening - Sousanis and Understanding Comics both use comics to present complex points about comics
  • Gödel, Escher Bach presents an exploration of twisting, self-referential representations in a book whose form is itself twisting and self-referential
  • Meaningness uses a fuzzy, non-hierarchical hypertext structure to present arguments about the essential fluidity of everything.
  • Tufte’s books instruct on how to present information clearly and efficiently, on pages which have been meticulously designed to themselves exemplify those practices.
  • My public Evergreen notes about writing evergreen notes.

References

Sousanis, N. (2015). Unflattening. Harvard University Press.

My thread on this topic: https://twitter.com/andy_matuschak/status/1274553575352365056

Last updated 2023-07-13.