Some notes on how this site is made, and where it stands on privacy, energy, accessibility and copyright. It's a work in progress and changes as the work does.
The whole body of work is held as one graph of records — people, projects, outputs, themes and the threads between them — and rendered three ways from that single source. The map settles it into one continuous, force-directed web: the form is the argument, entanglement rather than hierarchy, with no fixed centre. The Index typesets the same record as a document. The record pages open a single entry up with covers, detail and downloads. A small in-browser Builder edits the graph.
Plain HTML, CSS and JavaScript — no framework, no build step, no server-side code, no trackers baked in. One data file drives every view; the force layout is deterministic, so the web settles the same way each visit. Type is Newsreader and IBM Plex Mono (both open-licensed, self-hosted here, not called from a third party). Hosted on Netlify and served as static files.
This site sets no cookies, runs no advertising or social trackers, and makes no third-party requests for fonts or assets. The only thing kept in your browser is a local draft if you use the Builder — it never leaves your device. For basic, aggregate visitor numbers it uses GoatCounter, an open-source counter that stores no personal data and sets no cookies.
A deliberately light, static site: a few hand-written files, no framework payload, images kept small, fonts subset by language so a reader only ever downloads the few they need. Lightness here isn't only performance — it sits with the natureculture strand of the work. You can check the footprint of any page on the live site with the calculators below.
The map is a visual, interactive thing, and a force-directed web is hard going for a screen reader or keyboard alone. So the Index is its accessible equal: the same records, set out in plain, linear, readable order, and printable to a CV-ready PDF. On the map, opens find and steps back. If anything here is awkward to use, tell me and I'll fix it.
Words and descriptions on this site are © Joshua McNamara, shared under a Creative Commons Attribution–NonCommercial 4.0 licence (CC BY-NC 4.0) — reuse and adapt them with credit, for non-commercial purposes. The works they describe — publications, films, the journal issues — carry their own rights; logos, cover images and any documents remain the property of their respective owners and appear here only to identify the work. The site records collaborators and contributors as a matter of accurate credit; if you'd like a mention corrected or removed, get in touch and I'll see to it.