A notable feature of many of the ar

A notable feature of many of the articles in this
issue is also how the authors draw on visual maps
or diagrams to represent processes and their iterative
dynamics. The conventional boxes and arrows
of variance studies (representing concepts and
causal linkages respectively) return in new forms,
wherein boxes tend to represent states and arrows
relations of precedence or distinctive processual
elements or flows. It is also common for researchers
to represent processes as "strange loops" (Hofstadter,
2008)—that is, processes that depart ever further
from their origin,