Abstract
A book’s indexicality (citations, bibliography, endnotes and references) matters because this is how ideas travel and authors become world-leading. Approached initially through counting, I evidence how Sloterdijk is primarily negligible through indexicality towards those who identify as female. What follows is a diagrammatic account of distortions in the Spheres index. This chapter’s design-in is diagrammatic, using the tropes of Spheres. I argue that visualising the disciplinary of Spheres should be done by choosing the Voronoi over the Venn diagram because of the prevalence of casual sexism implied recently to the Venn. By cautioning the optimism to create new digital tools for searching indexes, I contemplate how new data visualisations may reinforce, rather than reveal, the distortions present in Spheres.
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Windle, A. (2019). By Count and Diagram, Is the Indexicality of Spheres Diverse Enough?. In: A Companion of Feminisms for Digital Design and Spherology. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02287-7_4
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