Reclaiming the future of thought.
Palinode is a philosophical technology initiative designing digital spaces for reflection, dialogue, and creative becoming. In a landscape dominated by algorithmic optimization and endless engagement loops, we offer an alternative: technologies that amplify perplexity, reward intellectual risk, and invite users to think differently. Our name evokes a poetic retraction: a turning back to revise, not regress. We build frameworks, platforms, and protocols that reject passive consumption in favor of participatory meaning-making.
Our flagship project, Khora, exemplifies this ethos: a digital symposium where disagreement generates insight, and identity emerges through dialogue. Palinode invites technologists, artists, and thinkers to treat software as a philosophical medium and to imagine architectures of sense that resist automation’s closure. We’re not scaling distraction – we’re seeding a renaissance of thought.
Team
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Dr. Danielle Layne
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Dr. Eli Kramer
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Tof Chapin
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Karin Valis
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Gareth Polmeer
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Tyreil Poosri
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Joshua Thomas
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Jakub Fiala
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Tof Chapin
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Tof Chapin
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Tof Chapin
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Tof Chapin
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Tof Chapin
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Tof Chapin
Programs
Khora
Khôra is a threshold for meeting across disciplines and backgrounds, where philosophy, art, science, and technology enter into reciprocal play. Rather than enforcing rigid categories or expert silos, Khôra cultivates productive hierarchies: expertise and curiosity inform one another without closing the space. A scholar’s insight may spark an artist’s gesture, which in turn provokes a programmer’s experiment. In this way, knowledge circulates vertically and horizontally, generating constellations of thought that are both inclusive and dynamically ordered. By holding difference without erasure, Khôra becomes a living laboratory for collective meaning‑making that honors both mastery and beginner’s wonder.
Philosophical Media
We foster media and technology designed to stimulate wonder and critical thought, rather than distract, predict, or dangerously mirror. Inspired by the ancient Platonic principle, the Khora platform invokes the value of recreating an ever‑moving and perplexing space where difference and sameness, and the shifting space between, together constitute a living cosmos of ideas.