For this project I used Amazon's databank of user reviews to visualize the qualitative value John Maeda's book, "The Laws of Simplicity," according to people who had read the book.


"the Text is that social space which leaves no language safe, outside, nor any subject of the enunciation in position as judge, master, analyst, confessor, decoder."
-Roland Barthes, "From Work to Text"

"The reader is the space on which all the quotations that make up a writing are inscribed without any of them being lost; a text's unity lies not in its origin but in its destination. Yet this destination cannot any longer be personal: the reader is without history, biography, psychology; he is simply that someone who holds together in a single field all the traces by which the written text is constituted."
-Roland Barthes, "The Death of the Author"