To Move is to change position within a network.
The movement may be physical, chronological, hierarchical, conceptual or relational.
The simplest example is geography.
We can move:
London → Paris
or:
Coventry → Birmingham
But Linkology uses Move much more broadly than literal travel.
We can move from one Character to another:
John Lennon → Paul McCartney
from one Object to another:
guitar → amplifier
from one date to another:
1965 → 2008
or from one category to another:
musician → city → stadium → concert → date
The essential feature is that our attention has shifted from one node to another.
Moving through COGS
COGS gives Move four immediate directions.
From a Character, we can move to another Character, an Object, a Geography or a point in Seconds.
Suppose we begin with:
The Beatles
We could move through Character:
The Beatles → Billy Joel
through Geography:
The Beatles → Shea Stadium
through Objects:
The Beatles → “A Hard Day’s Night”
or through Seconds:
The Beatles → 15 August 1965
Each move opens a different route.
The point is not simply to keep moving. The point is to notice what kinds of move are possible.
Movement through sequence
Move also describes position within a sequence.
A concert belongs to a tour.
A football match belongs to a season.
A king belongs within a succession.
A song belongs within an album.
A station belongs on a railway line.
A number belongs within a sequence.
This means that we can move forwards or backwards:
previous → current → next
A concert on one night can lead to the venue played the night before or the city played the night after.
A historical event can lead to its causes or consequences.
A family member can lead to a parent, child, sibling or ancestor.
Move therefore includes both space and order.
Movement through rank
Movement can also occur in rankings.
A football team rises or falls in a league.
A song moves up or down a chart.
A runner moves from third to second.
A candidate may move through rounds of a competition.
Gold, silver and bronze represent ordered positions.
So Move does not require geographical movement at all.
It can mean a change in relative position.
Movement through relationships
Some movement is relational.
If A is married to B, we can move from A to B.
If B works for C, we can move from B to C.
If C is located in D, we can move from C to D.
This can produce a chain such as:
person → spouse → employer → city → country
At each stage, the type of link changes.
That changing link type is often what makes a Link Salad interesting.