Aporia

απορία — a state of puzzlement, the moment before understanding

Visual essays that use data to reopen questions we thought were settled. Each piece is built around our own open-source tools — chronowords and kenon — and designed to be read, scrolled, and explored.

These are not dashboards. They are arguments made with data, written to be read from beginning to end.

Essays

Nixon portrait — split word cloud of public and private vocabulary
Computational Psycholinguistics

The great modern crimes are public crimes

Does power change a person — or reveal them? We applied Big Five personality analysis to the public speeches and private writings of seven American leaders. Lincoln was the same man in both rooms. Nixon was two different people. Kissinger knew exactly what he was doing.

Lincoln · Nixon · Kissinger · Scrollytelling + Chart.js
Wittgenstein portrait ringed by a spiral of the Tractatus's logical symbols
Computational Philosophy

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent

A visual reading of Wittgenstein's Tractatus: 2,025 sentences as a handwritten spiral, sized by centrality and coloured by community.

Tractatus · Network analysis · 2D + 3D
Two retro Tetris boards side by side — the Epistemic Arcade's internalist and extended-mind agents
Philosophy of Mind

Where does the mind end and the world begin?

Two reinforcement-learning agents learn Tetris under identical architectures but opposite reward functions — one penalised for every keystroke, one free to think with its hands. A live test of Clark & Chalmers' extended-mind hypothesis.

Clark & Chalmers · PPO / stable-baselines3 · Scrollytelling WIP