Mike Love’s Genealogy of Influence visualizes the relationships between artists, authors, and philosophers in a shifting web. Arrows show the flow of influence and inspiration; lines indicate a relationship between intellectual peers. The work–also available as a pdf document–reorients itself as users explors the connections between entries and offers short biographies clipped from Wikipedia. Recently, Love has made the project editable using Freebase.
Love has also experimented with “live footnotes“–allowing readers to open text charts giving the subject’s connections to others in the master genealogy.
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. Historian Shae Davidson's research interests include public policy and the relationship between culture and civil society. His publications range from articles on industrial history to absurdist poetry.
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