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The format of this book has been designed and imagined to echo these bubbling churning interstices. Its paragraphs float in a loosely tethered arrangement, like the bobbing platforms of a artificial and unstable atoll. Some nodes are content, others commentary on that content. As with all deep maps, the point at which text ends and commentary begins is unclear - boundary objects dot the assemblage in abundance. The jump from text to comment is never clean, just as the historian's categorisation of primary and secondary sources is never neat. When the context of reading changes, commentary becomes text and that which is commented upon becomes ancillary. The parts exist as a floating assemblage, much as a deep map does. The commentary is what draws the pieces together, if only for a time: |
"Its paragraphs float in a loosely tethered arrangement, like the bobbing platforms of a artificial and unstable atoll." Love this sentence and I'm wondering how we represent that in CSS in Juncture. We want to capture a kind of floating feeling to the text and how it is surfaced to the reader. Maybe fading in as if growing closer to the surface and then fading out as the reader scrolls away as if sinking into the depths.
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> ..Derrida's ruminations are ... drenched in the language of the depths, as he describes the question of human and nonhuman subjectivity as "immense and abyssal," requiring that he wres tle with the "several tentacles" of philosophies that become, together, "a single living body at bottom." If we shift Derrida's ruminations on the "animal abyss" from an encounter with the gaze of a specific animal to the collective "composition" (in Bruno Latour's terms) of the vast abyssal zone and its surrounding territories, we discover the same sort of vertiginous recognition that there is, indeed, "being rather than nothing." But what does it mean for the abyssalbeing to be or become "too much"?[^1] |
Similarly I wonder how to represent blockquotes and if there's a sense of surfacing some other text that we can get across through styling? Maybe there's something fun we can do with font sizing?
Deep-Maps-Blue-Humanities/20241022 - Chapter 1 Draft 1.0/CH1 Paragraphs/CH1 - Commentary.md
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"Its paragraphs float in a loosely tethered arrangement, like the bobbing platforms of a artificial and unstable atoll." Love this sentence and I'm wondering how we represent that in CSS in Juncture. We want to capture a kind of floating feeling to the text and how it is surfaced to the reader. Maybe fading in as if growing closer to the surface and then fading out as the reader scrolls away as if sinking into the depths.
Deep-Maps-Blue-Humanities/20241022 - Chapter 1 Draft 1.0/CH1 Paragraphs/CH1 - Depth Fear.md
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Similarly I wonder how to represent blockquotes and if there's a sense of surfacing some other text that we can get across through styling? Maybe there's something fun we can do with font sizing?