From Stochastische Texte to t-Distributed Stochastic Neighbor Embedding (t-SNE)

Kafka described a foundational labyrinth, -- identity adrift in an implacable circuit -- that Theo Lutz used to seed his "Stochastische Texte" generator. Contemporary techniques, and algorithms such as t-Distributed Stochastic Neighbor Embedding (t-SNE), operate on integrated circuits and offer a topological overview of text corpuses, speckled node- spaces where writing styles and hyperparameters influence proximity. In this talk I’ll examine a few implications of dimensionality reduction (such as t-SNE) for reading. Flattened complexity has continuity with formal critique, topology extends hippocampal mapmaking, hyperparameters detect prosodic patterns, and the implacable blindness of identity encounters algorithm in the labyrinth of language.