{"id":1266,"date":"2019-10-08T18:54:38","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T23:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/?p=1266"},"modified":"2019-10-08T18:54:38","modified_gmt":"2019-10-08T23:54:38","slug":"weeknote-for-10-6-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/2019\/10\/08\/weeknote-for-10-6-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Weeknote for 10\/6\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Work<\/h2>\n<p>\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m out from under my piles of work for real, so now I have my evenings back. Will this translate to more progress on my stuff? Time will tell.<\/p>\n<h2>Conceptual modeling<\/h2>\n<p>\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>This week starts the spoooky project month of October, and for this project I&#8217;m continuing my study of <em>Visualization Analysis and Design<\/em> by Tamara Munzner, which is appropriate because I still have a scary amount of it left to read. I also need to avoid getting lost in the details and focus on my main question for this study: In a modeling project, how can I match the object under study to a visual scheme, based on the conceptual frameworks implied in these schemes? On the side I&#8217;m looking into the more pictorial kinds of information graphics Munzner&#8217;s book doesn&#8217;t seem to cover, and the main search terms I&#8217;ve come across so far are graphic facilitation, technical illustration, and educational comics.<\/p>\n<h2>Experimental literature<\/h2>\n<p>\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>I made a schedule for listening to the <em>Routledge Companion to Experimental Literature<\/em> (RCEL), and I should be able to finish it this week. After skimming through a lot of the essays earlier in the year, it&#8217;s interesting to see what they&#8217;re like when I hear the whole content. Some of them are more confusing than I&#8217;d hoped, such as the one on <em>Tel Quel<\/em>&#8211;and when I add summaries of the essays to my experimental literature list, I might start with those&#8211;but others are more thought provoking and relevant to me than I expected, like the one on postcolonial literature.<\/p>\n<p>RCEL and the alchemy art book I also bought have put me in the mood for various surreal and philosophical topics, such as existentialism and esotericism, so now I have my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/list\/2505740-andy-culbertson?shelf=rank-queue\">reading list<\/a> for the next couple of months, which you can see in that Goodreads link. Some of my choices are also fitting for Halloween, and if I&#8217;m diligent about listening, I can fit all the spooky ones into October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Work \ud83d\ude42 I&#8217;m out from under my piles of work for real, so now I have my evenings back. Will this translate to more progress on my stuff? Time will tell. Conceptual modeling \ud83d\ude42 This week starts the spoooky project &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/2019\/10\/08\/weeknote-for-10-6-2019\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[185,194,167,139],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conceptual-modeling","category-experimental-literature","category-weeknotes","category-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1267,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266\/revisions\/1267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}