{"id":6517,"date":"2006-03-02T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-02T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/02\/nodes-from-clas\/"},"modified":"2006-03-02T23:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-02T23:00:00","slug":"nodes-from-clas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/02\/nodes-from-clas\/","title":{"rendered":"Nodes from Class"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">\u23f3 Approximate reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">mins<\/span><\/span><p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/img\/compmap.jpg?ssl=1\"><br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/img\/cmapcomp.jpg?resize=275%2C185&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"275\" height=\"185\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/img\/compmap.jpg\">Cmap <i><br \/>\ndraft<\/i><\/a> of the development of modern composition studies, roughly<br \/>\nreproduced from notes on the board during Tuesday&#8217;s<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ccr.syr.edu\/offerings\/712phelpss06.html\">712<\/a>. I went<br \/>\nback and snapped a digital photo of the<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/img\/mapphoto4.jpg\">chalkboard yesterday<\/a><br \/>\n(preserved from the day before with a &quot;Please do not erase&quot;). Then, to<br \/>\ndevelop the <a href=\"http:\/\/cmap.ihmc.us\/download\/\">Cmap<\/a>, I inserted the<br \/>\nphotograph as a temporary background to approximate the spatial arrangement of<br \/>\nlinks and nodes. After that, I quick-shopped a<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/img\/backdrop.jpg\">periodization<br \/>\nbackdrop<\/a> to emphasize the past few decades as phases of disciplinary<br \/>\ndevelopment (fluctuation, upheaval, etc.). And finally, I shifted around a<br \/>\nfew of the nodes, repositioned other stuff, tinkered with color schemes and sent<br \/>\noff a draft for future&#8211;ongoing&#8211;revisions. <i>The<\/i> map of complandia?<br \/>\nCertainly not; not in any perfected, exhaustive or territory-analog kind of way. But <i>one<\/i> map of complandia. 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