#Diagramming Modernity

[drawdownbooks]

Diagramming Modernity: Books and Graphic Design in Latin America, 1920–1940 This massive publication offers the first comprehensive panorama of the Latin American illustrated book between the 1920s and 1940s, a period characterized by the region's rapid modernization. The books reproduced here encapsulate this transformative era, expressing and embodying emergent national and continental narratives in Latin American countries.

Diagramming Modernity reproduces more than 1,000 illustrated first editions, analyzing the cornucopia of cultural narratives they contain. In addition to showcasing relatively unknown work by many consecrated artists, the publication also boasts an extensive repertoire of avant-garde artists largely forgotten until today.

Chapters are devoted to countries and to specific themes such as Word-Image, Verbal Visualities, Pre-Columbianisms and Ancestralisms, and Social and Political Graphics.

Writers and thinkers Rodrigo Gutiérrez Viñuales, Riccardo Boglione, Juan Manuel Bonet, Mariana Garone Gravier and Dafne Cruz Porchini conscientiously investigate these themes and more.

Edited by Rodrigo Gutiérrez Viñuales and Riccardo Boglione

With texts by Juan Manuel Bonet, Rodrigo Gutiérrez Viñuales, Riccardo Boglione, Marina Garone Gravier, and Dafne Cruz Porchini

Designed by José Luis Lugo

Published by Editoriale RM and Ediciones La Bahía, 2023

Hardcover, 876 pages, 1500 color images, 9 × 12.25 inches

ISBN: 978-8-41-797579-1

[dieletztepanzerhexe]

polish sf writers be like...

[archiveofaffinities]

Charles Jencks, Late-Modern Space Diagram

[goldenstorm0]

preview of the simple guide I'm working on. I am putting too much work into this, but I'm pretty happy with this diagram

[economicsresearch]

240 - of all the great parties in history I would like to attend, a Bauhaus costume party in the 1920s is definitely on the list. I would dress as the pagoda that needs to pee more than other pagodas.

Ask your sweetie.

Parties that I will not be removing from the list: the Spencers' Field Parties, circa 1992-1996.

[liverpool-enjoyer]

i cant put into words how interested i am in nuclear semiotics,,, as cool as the proposed spike fields are, thats their problem - theyre cool and interesting. future humans will only be intrigued, flocking to the site to learn what they can about their predecesors. thats crazy.

[calamitydawning]

been seeing everyone's sso playlists going around and while i don't have like a nice well-thought-out list of songs with explanations for each i DO have 3+ hour ongoing playlists for both my ocs

[dan-whoell]

dan and phil tour and modern baseball demos what the fuck is up with june 2024

[russellmoreton]

Maps and Masks : Non-Stellar Objects by Russell Moreton Via Flickr: Cyanotype process on paper.

[distantobserver0]

A collage I made earlier this year, never gave it a title. It pretty accurately represents a headspace I enter sometimes. Sorry about the flash photo mark in the center, I don't have a scanner.

[natwill88-blog]

[least-carpet]

Had to promote some tags:

#the only jealous wife in mdzs is lan wangji (@a-ninja-magpie)

#would i like her if she was a real person? #definitely not #but that would actually apply to most if not all the characters #what i like about her (and most of the characters) is that they're wonderfully complex #there's just a lot to chew on #and while it's fun to nudge an aspect of their character into ooc zones just to see how it would affect the whole #just flattening them overall #(especially making the antagonists mere mustache-twirlers) #is the most uninteresting thing you can do (@jensownzoo)

#the possibility of divorce #(and property under her own name) #HAS to change the vibes somewhat imo #even if they still stay married #because a problem in the marriage canonically no one can resolve is that yzy can only be her husband's equal as long as he lets her #...my conclusion is that I want a modern AU where they divorced #but got back together as a couple after the divorce #because they can love each other better as separate legal and financial entities #any individual member of the trio is ABSOLUTELY more upset about the others' treatment than their own #that's just canon #they all stand up for each other but not themselves (@cygnahime)

#i really liked how this played out in some of Kouri Arashi's modern AUs #also hey! shoutout to one of my posts #yu ziyuan #where's that post that was like #'I'm more interested in what the character of Yu Ziyuan *says* #about the setting and the time and the society they're in #about what power looks like and who wields it and where they run aground on the limits #than in whether she's a nice person' (@mikkeneko)

#!!!!!!!!!!!! #yall go on about milf supremacy #AND WHEN AN ASKAN MILF SHOWS UP YOU GET WEIRD ABOUT IT????? #asian #LIKE IM NOT CHINESE BUT I PROBABLY KNOW THIS WOMAN #she's here dealing with her ass of a husband's bad decisions and tling the brunt of the pushback #JFM HATERS IN THIS HOUSE!!! #ngl if my husband showed up #with his situationships son #and then NEGLECTED MINE #i would also be like her #SORRY #prev tags #'I'm more interested in what the character of Yu Ziyuan *says* #about the setting and the time and the society they're in #about what power looks like and who wields it and where they run aground on the limits #than in whether she's a nice person' (@unfotp)

Hilariously, that was also me. All females do is log onto tumblr.com, scream into the void about Yu Ziyuan, eat hot chip & lie.

yu ziyuan screams, cont.

One of the things that irritates me is when people aren't thinking about motivation when translating characters from one context to another, ESPECIALLY women. Specifically, I'm thinking about Yu Ziyuan, and how her anger about her life is so often reduced to romantic jealousy or just chalked up to her being "violent and abusive¹." Like, okay, yes, she's often angry and really mean about it. Why is she angry and what does that look like in a different time and place?

Here are some reasons for Yu Ziyuan's anger in canon that aren't just "she's jealous" (gag):

Feeling devalued and disrespected in her marriage, which is also her job.

Not wanting to parent a child she didn't agree to adopt.

Being an extremely talented and strong cultivator who is restricted by society's expectations for women / her gender role, which she resists (such as by continuing to nighthunt, being called "Madame Yu" rather than "Madame Jiang," etc.).

Wanting a secure future for both her children and wanting them to appear strong in order to access that future—which is why she's so angry about Jiang Yanli peeling lotus seeds and Jiang Cheng coming in second to Wei Wuxian. Her children are "lowering themselves" in relation to a person she doesn't consider a member of her family and who is continually a source of public shame. She feels like this might damage their prospects, all for a person she doesn't personally care about!

Feeling pressured to secure that future for her children by herself, because her husband doesn't seem to like one of them, and furthermore often doesn't seem to be acting in their best interests.

So if I was going to translate to a modern!au, that could look like:

Feeling devalued and disrespected in her marriage (still happens).

Pausing her career to have children, then returning and having to fight hard to make up ground.

Wanting a secure future for her children, pushing them aggressively to achieve (in concrete ways such as test scores and extracurriculars). Likely a source of conflict with the more hands-off Jiang Fengmian.

I do think she could get divorced, but obviously wouldn't if it had severe social, financial, and/or professional consequences—in canon, she maintains a separate household, she's addressed by a title that separates her from her husband, and she spends a lot of time away from him, but she hasn't left. Really depends on the era and milieu she's operating in. She wouldn't do it if it would damage her or her family, or unless the damage had already occurred and couldn't be mitigated.

The threat of divorce might change the dynamic between her and Jiang Fengmian, though? If it didn't, why not? Is there a specific reason they both feel like they can't leave?

Like, you don't have to do all of that for there to be conflict between her (authoritarian, concerned with society's values, high standards, definite Tiger Mom candidate) and Wei Wuxian (rebellious, mischievous, high-achieving but not particularly well-behaved), regardless of whether or not he's a part of her household. They disagree about a lot of fundamental stuff! There's always going to be friction, even without canon's complex social/household arrangements! You simply do not have to reduce her to a misogynistic caricature of a jealous wife, even if part of what made her so angry in canon is gossip about her husband's feelings for another woman. That gossip doesn't exist in a vacuum! It has a political dimension! The power of gossip is literally a theme in the book! Many of her complaints are explicitly political, especially in relation to the Wen! I'm cool, it's cool, we're good. I'll stop yelling now.

(I also think that the person most likely to be critical of Yu Ziyuan's parenting—or Jiang Fengmian's parenting, for that matter—is Jiang Yanli rather than Jiang Cheng or Wei Wuxian, especially after she's had a child, and, in all cases, any individual member of the trio is more likely to be indignant about the others' treatment rather than their own. But that could be a post of its own.)

I'm not particularly interesting in rehashing the discourse about whether or not her treatment of Wei Wuxian constitutes abuse. I think this is a good summary of how it's treated in-story. I think it's fair to still read it and think it's unacceptable, but the original construction of it in canon is relevant if you're trying to translate their relationship to a modern setting.

[cyber-soul-smartz]

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[thoodleoo]

>looking for a new retelling of ancient myth

>ask the reviewers if the book is classical reception or modern tropification

>they don't understand

>i pull out a diagram explaining the difference between what engages with ancient sources and depictions of the story and what relies on reduction of the story to its most marketable aspects

>they laugh and say "it's a good retelling"

>read the book

>its tropification

[great-and-small]

Horse people are such a specific type of crazy (I know as I am one myself) because they’ve been staring at their horses for millennia with such meticulous fervor that they’ve developed a kind of weird equine phrenology where owners feel like they can predict a horse’s temperament and behavior just from the pattern of hair swirls (called whorls) on their face. Which results in absolutely unhinged diagrams like this

The craziest thing about this? It may be based in truth. There has been a decent amount of study into the connection between hair whorls and horse behavior. Many scientists theorize that because these hair patterns develop in the fetal horse at the same time as the nervous system, certain information about a horse’s behavior can be predicted by the whorls.

A 2021 article in Livestock Science explored the genetic heritability of these swirl patterns and found that a whorl on the forehead is highly influenced by genetic factors and could potentially be used to select more docile animals. Temple Grandin researched the phenomenon as well with several studies at Colorado state and made the same connection between the growth of hair whorls and the development of the horse’s brain, leading to certain manifestations of anxiety or docility. Obviously temperament in any animal is more complicated than just genetics or histology, and it would be silly to try and extrapolate a horse’s entire personality from its hair, but the connection is interesting and worth investigating all the same.

There is an ancient history to these whorls. An Indian veterinarian mentioned them in a treatise on equine medicine from the third century, and the Bedouin people (who had an extremely developed lore around whorls) used the marks to determine the price of horses prior to sale. It’s pretty cool that our modern understanding of embryology and veterinary medicine is illuminating a phenomenon that ancient people first noted and passed down through folklore.

[oneslimybastard]

In a modern setting Astarion would have precisely two ways of dressing himself with no in-between, neither are good, a scientific diagram:

It's a 50-50 gamble which form you'll spot in the frozen food aisle at 3 am