Sentimental Cartography

A short art-appreciation post naming and collecting 'sentimental cartography' — maps of non-geographic things (love, the rationalist community, the Internet, literature). Scott digs up the old Renaissance term for the genre, then curates the best modern examples he can find (James Turner's Map of Humanity, the Atlas of Experience, Martin Vargic's Map of the Internet / Map of Literature, a road-map of songs), lamenting that this lovely art form has nearly died and urging people to revive it.

Quality 55 · Solid. 55 — Solid. A charming curation with a nice contribution (recovering the genre's name), but mostly an enthusiastic annotated link-list of others' art rather than a substantive piece of Scott's own.

Claude’s paradigm shift 28 · Slight. 28 — Slight; naming/curating an existing art form, not creating one.

Real-world impact 1 · Negligible. 1 — a niche art-appreciation post; negligible reach.