My favorite book of 2012 was Chris Ware’s Building Stories…I found myself reconsidering some of my basic assumptions about what constituted bookishness: was a book defined by its composition? By an expectation of narrative? By a currency of pages? By its singular thingness?
…just because something looks good, doesn’t mean it says anything of value. And yet, as someone obsessed with the methodologies of storytelling, I cannot help but wonder about the hidden narrative mechanics behind the infographic. Perhaps my infogasm is not as superficial or ephemeral as it might first appear.
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The infogasm is instantaneous, overwhelming, and usually transitory in nature, leaving you oddly exhausted.
Infogasm (n.) — The fleeting sense of the erotic that occurs only when a graphic perfectly clarifies complex phenomena through the careful arrangement of its visual data sets.
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