Palinode

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 A. Layne - Founder & CEO

    Dr. Danielle A. Layne (Danny), founder of our company, is driven by a bold vision to fuse rigorous philosophical inquiry with cutting-edge creative practice. A self-styled rogue academic, Layne’s passion lies in the Platonic tradition and the history of philosophy, aiming to build a platform where ancient wisdom sparks fresh dialogue with contemporary culture and technology. Beyond developing Khora, she leads dynamic projects from documentary films and the upcoming Platonic Mysticism podcast to unconventional conferences like Vital Platonism in Delphi, Greece (Summer 2025). Each venture reflects her commitment to pioneering new paths for transformative intellectual growth. A dedicated mentor, Layne empowers students to forge their own creative philosophical journeys, pushing the boundaries of how philosophy is taught and lived in the modern world.
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    Eli Kramer – Director of Strategic Engagement and Development

    Eli Kramer is an accomplished academic leader and philosophical technology specialist working at the intersection of intercultural philosophy as a way of life, humane-centered AI/machine learning design, and global liberal arts reform. With extensive experience in leadership, program development, and strategic visioning, he has built interdisciplinary programs, managed international educational hubs, and designed thoughtful, future-oriented learning environments across continents.

    At Palinode Productions, Eli coordinates outreach and engagement with potential license clients, collaborative organizations, content database partners, as well as academic publishers. He also guides the expansion of Khora’s network of contributors, collaborators, and partners. He cultivates relationships with initial content providers, ensuring their materials are properly ingested, updated, and showcased, while establishing protocols to maintain high-quality, globally representative philosophical content. Working closely with the Khora ingest team, he advances both the reach and scholarly rigor of the platform’s resources. Additionally, he engages with potential funders and impact investors, aligning partnerships with Palinode’s mission to foster ethical, imaginative, and globally connected philosophical inquiry. He also produces promotional content and manages social media communications to amplify Palinode’s reach and engagement.
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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 – Software Engineer

    Jakub is an artist and creative technologist based in Berlin, specialising in audiovisual Web technologies and algorithmic art. In his practice, he enjoys misusing technology to unveil the Realm of the Weird; exposing the machines’ delicate innards and making them tell human stories. His tools include generative algorithms, field recordings, data visualisation, machine learning, 3D printing and online audience participation. His artwork has been displayed in the UK, Germany, Spain, Italy, Japan and South Korea.

    At Palinode, Jakub develops Khora’s user interface, including the infrastructure delivering the web-based experience. He collaborates with our designers and artists to bring the sensory aspect of Khora to life.

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Programs

Khora

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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

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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.

Contact

contact@palinode.org