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Work in progress, published as it happens. Each entry is its own repository, served from this domain. Some are finished; most are not.
An interactive map of the people, constructs, and machine intelligences in William Gibson’s Sprawl Trilogy. Follow 61 identities and 93 relationships across three novels, with source references and palettes inspired by each book. Contains full-trilogy spoilers.
A black cat as a study in absence. Three mathematical lenses—negative space, light absorption, and the boundary of a silhouette—turn the void into something visible. Adjust the darkness and watch the cat blink.
The sihek, or Guam kingfisher, is Extinct in the Wild. Plotting every kingfisher ND2 sequence in GenBank by its distance from this one bird reveals a ring 2.02 percentage points wide containing nothing at all. The chart inks the emptiness and leaves the data as dust.
A reference architecture for CaaS.
Gibson's novel coded line by line against two incompatible theories of the sign. Peirce's triadic instrument asks what kind of sign has to arrive before a reader grants a machine a mind, and finds that fluency is the wrong kind. Saussure's dyadic one asks what system of differences makes a conscious machine sayable at all. Two studies, two repositories, one novel.