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Utopian visions and diagrams have engaged in a multitude of relationships. For example, a utopian narrative can be conceived as a diagram, or with the aid of diagrams, and understood through diagrammatic (re)annotation. This notion is explored through an interpretation of Thomas More's Utopia and Andrea Branzi's Agronica. Both schemes address various structural conditions through diagrammatic operations. In More's scheme the channel that separates Utopia from the mainland, dug by its putative founder King Abraxas, inscribes a circular boundary, reiterated in the city walls and moat; it is resonant with contemporaneous rota and volvelle schemata. Conversely, Andrea Branzi's “mirror simulator” multiplies Agronica's centrifugal grid to infinity, negating the “outside,” and is evocative of pervasive virtual networks.
Christoph Lueder (Wed,) studied this question.