Helpful Diagrams

This diagram, from Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis by Jacques Lacan, could not be clearer on where best to place your flower vases. Interior decorating made easy!

I don’t really know what the context is for this, and that’s probably for the best.

Thanks to speakingintongues.tumblr.com for this submission. Source: http://radar.oreilly.com/2012/01/the-feedback-economy.html

John Boyd may have something important to say about combat strategies, but according to this diagram, we’ll never know what…

A bonus from A Thousand Plateaus. I think this is what whale songs look like on paper.

This is from a book called A Thousand Plateaus by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. That dotted line rhombus really clarifies the matter.

Labeled as “Simple Chart of the Hegelian Dialectic and Marx’s Dialectical Materialism.”

From The Dynamics of Literary Response by Norman H. Holland. Somebody please supply a central meaning to this diagram. http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00003033/00001

“Semiotic cube” from Fredric Jameson’s Postmodernism or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism. Sorta makes me feel like a semiotic rube.

A diagram of the nature of consciousness from http://www.kheper.net/integral/psychology.html.