Lab / Visualization
Intellectual Network Map
450+ books. 8 problem domains. The connections that academic categories erase.
Interactive — zoom, pan, click bridge authors for biographical modals. Opens in a new tab.
About This Project
Standard library organization — genre, discipline, Library of Congress subject — imposes administrative categories on a reading life that does not actually work that way. A book on Foucault sits in "philosophy" while a book on Collins sits in "sociology," obscuring that both are fundamentally about how social structures produce and regulate behavior.
This project reorganizes a personal reading collection by the core questions each book addresses: What is consciousness? How does language make meaning? What are the conditions of interpersonal violence? Eight problem domains replace the received categories.
8 Problem Domains
- Consciousness
- Language
- Violence
- Social Structure
- Aesthetic Experience
- Self / Subject
- Temporality
- Place / Space
Bridge Authors
8 thinkers identified as bridges across multiple domains — Foucault, Sloterdijk, Pynchon, Dennett, DFW, Didion, Zizek, Collins — with biographical modals pulled live from the Wikipedia REST API.
Stack
- Python (NetworkX, Plotly)
- Vanilla JavaScript
- Wikipedia REST API
- sessionStorage caching
- CSS Grid / Flexbox