Earlier manuscript and research
Autopoietic Semantic Fields
Earlier work on self-organizing knowledge and meaning.
Subject
Meaning & Knowledge
How meanings organise, and the tools for keeping knowledge honest.
Meaning depends on relations among words, books, claims, sources, and the people interpreting them. These works explore those relations without confusing an attractive map with the knowledge it represents.
The earlier Autopoietic Semantic Fields manuscript asks how knowledge might organize and change. Embeddings Lab, Living Library, Knowledge Wiki, and Origin approach related questions through distinct tools.
Writing
Working paper
The Demon’s Unpaid Bill
A philosophical paper on finite observers and the physical costs and limits of knowledge.
Projects
Public · live
Embeddings Lab
Explore words and their semantic neighbours, and examine what changes when those relationships are projected into a visual map.
Protected demonstration
Living Library
Photograph your bookshelves, settle the uncertain matches yourself, then explore your library.
Where does an expression come from, who made it popular, and what came before it?
Prototype
Knowledge Wiki
A local-first wiki organised around books, passages, claims and the sources behind them.
Concept
Tell Me Something
One carefully sourced item a day, and an archive to browse instead of a feed.
In development
Paradox Atlas
A working collection of paradoxes, with sources and comparisons between related entries.