After playing around with RAW and Tableau, I realized that the concept I wished to visualize would be better served by the chart-creating capabilities of a program like what yWorks offered, which is how I came to download and use yEd. I wanted to see exactly how "pulled together" and "torn apart" Nietzsche's theory of Attic tragedy was, from a section of his work The Birth of Tragedy (whole text can be found here). I thought this section in particular puts into written form, to a certain extent, some of the concepts of movement we have been mulling over in class, the aufheben (not to draw an arrow to Hegel or anything) that is building up and breaking down in order to reach an idea which will continue to be reworked. In this section, Nietzsche distinguishes between the Apolline and Dionysian "drives," setting them up as opposed in order to illustrate the strength of the art form that is created by their fusion. What seem to be the overly tragic, dissonant features of the Dionysian art are actually necessary, as he says "Thus, shouldn’t we have made that difficult problem of the tragic effect really much easier now that we have called on the relation of musical dissonance to help us? For now we understand what it means in tragedy to want to keep looking and at the same time to yearn for something beyond what we see. We would have to characterize this condition in relation to the artistic use of dissonance precisely as the fact that we want to keep listening and at the same time yearn to get beyond what we hear."

How better to visualize this problem than to, well, visualize it? The dissonance that seemed to be embodied in Nietzsche's writing came out nicely in a chart. One of the trends I am noticing with these practicums, however, is how they force me to reconsider the language I use when thinking/writing about theory in particular. Embody, for example, seems to change in meaning when I use it in relation to a chart like the one above, where Nietzsche's terms become little bodies of their own that connect, or just hang out, in relation to his larger ideas. How "embodied" is my interpretation of his theory in my own visualization of how these ideas map out?