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Positioning vocabulary

This page contains SPLectrum’s positioning vocabulary — terms for engaging external thought languages without imposing on them.

Close affinity — Positioning pieces with close affinity and high influence.

On the fence — Positioning pieces with a mixture of resonance and dissonance, of interest because of that mixture.

Outside voice — The voice of the positioning area. SPLectrum stays at a distance, letting external material speak on its own terms. Contrast: the narrator’s inside voice in the core areas.

Positioning — Outside work that puts SPLectrum in context. Engages external thought languages (thinkers, frameworks, traditions) on equal standing, without imposing SPLectrum’s framing.

Positioning piece — The unit of content in the positioning area. Each piece engages one thinker, framework, tradition, situational piece, or research angle.

Resonance and dissonance — The canonical pair for the relation between a piece and SPLectrum. Resonance: structural agreement. Dissonance: structural disagreement. SPLectrum takes part when a piece carries a mix of both.

Wider landscape — Positioning pieces at some distance from the centre, carrying considerable influence.