This Chart Is a Lonely Hunter
April 12, 2012 12:17 PM Subscribe
Reif Larsen on The Infogasm (or The Narrative Eros of the Infographic): "This fleeting sense of the erotic occurs only when a graphic perfectly clarifies complex phenomena through the careful arrangement of its visual data sets. The infogasm is instantaneous, overwhelming, and usually transitory in nature, leaving you oddly exhausted. Plain old text does not function with quite the the same epiphanic climax; by comparison, the written word’s magic is elusive and lingering, often revealing its fruits much later, after the article has been finished and put away."
This post was deleted for the following reason: we're pretty into 'erosion' around here IYKWIM -- cortex
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