“This is an assemblage—an assemblage of concepts and allegories.
The word “assemblage” is usually understood as a collection or gathering of things or people, a machine or object made of pieces fitted together, or a work of art made by grouping together found or unrelated objects. This map and accompanying footnotes are precisely that: one big messy assemblage of different concepts and ideas, assembled into one semi-coherent picture or let us say a map, a world view.
The concepts presented are mostly represented here visually in the form of allegories. Dictionaries define allegory as a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one. All of these allegories and concepts together, joined in the form of an assemblage, create together a blueprint of a machine-like superstructure, or a super allegory. In that sense, what we have here is an almost fractal allegorical structure—an allegory within an allegory within an allegory.
This work takes three forms that hardly can function independently.
Map – that attempts to present the superstructure or overall view;
Guide – that deals with the individual concepts and allegories;
Footnotes – textual descriptions of the presented concepts.”
