Posted by Nodus Labs | January 9, 2012
Visualization of Text’s Polysingularity Using Network Analysis
In this research we propose a method for visualizing text’s polysingularity: the multiple clusters of meaning circulation contained within a text. These clusters can be described as “strange attractors” (to use the term from dynamical systems theory), which are actualized during the process of reading. We use network analysis in order to plot the text’s structure onto a two-dimensional plane and represent these strange attractors as the communities of co-occurring nodes, positioned within the graph depending on their influence for the production of meaning.
