Here are some links to these things if anyone wants to check them out: 1/ Heterarchy: 2/ Intertwingled 3/ Manifold 4/ Folded Space 5/ 6/ Tangled Hierarchy 7/ Impredicativity 8/ Rhizome 9/ Self Contained Space

Actually, three more things: 1. Manifolds also seem like a weird inclusion; they're just one topological concept, and they aren't essentially... irregular? tangled? pick your term. 2. George Landow's writing on hypertext (applying esp. Barthes, Derrida) is relevant philosophy, notable because it's about meaning-making in a graph of texts rather than traversal in a graph of states. 3. "Graphs are generically useful" isn't surprising per se, and bucketing a bunch of applications of graphs without stressing the (dis)similarities between them risks just making that claim. These various authors have models built on the same substratum, but they're using graphs in wildly different ways––is the collection meaningful (i.e. are there theories referencing graphs or tangles that you'd exclude)? Does your idea of a narrative-forming traversal mean compatible things among very different graphs (a graph of states, of texts, an abstract topological category...)?

@Brandon My idea is to talk about this aspect of linearization or partial ordering as it happens when you start talking about stuff. I started researching into the history of Lambda Calculus (which sort of is the foundation for a lot of FP stuff) and as my understanding sharpened I found out that there is a lot of concurrency, link backs, reinterpretation etc. that happens in that space. But to narrate this (hi)story as one goddamn thing after another, it becomes important to partition the graph to a linear list (or tree/lattice). That is what I am trying to capture with this series. These are all great materials: https://futureofcoding.slack.com/archives/C5T9GPWFL/p1606080246079200?thread_ts=1606079753.078900&channel=C5T9GPWFL&message_ts=1606080246.079200 If you love Hofstadter’s work I highly recommend you look into Louis Kauffman’s video. It has a math slant but it is illuminating. Re: Strange loops, yup, Strange loop occurs in a tangled hierarchy, which I have linked as a main one.

@Lukas Schwab 1. Manifolds are the quintessential things I am talking about and the reason for starting this as I found out that there is this aspect of linearizing them which happens in computation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braid_group?wprov=sfti1 2. I need to look up Landow’s work. First time hearing about him. 3. Its not graphs exactly that is the emphasis here, but a (un)connected manifold that has got braids. I hope it will become clear as I write up the next entries in the series. The idea is that there is a linearization that takes these high dimensional manifolds to linearized ones as we take a graph to create narratives using some property of it for partially / linearly ordering its entities.