Sub-Surface Territories

A digital garden for thinking in public about philosophy, technology, photography, and the history of images.

Enter the garden

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Built with Quartz v4. Playfair Display serif headers, IBM Plex Sans body text, onyx & crimson dark mode, cherry blossom & cream light mode.

What's inside

• Notes on continental philosophy, cybernetics, and visual culture
• A Bookshelf of 21 books (Barthes, Sontag, Heidegger, Foucault, Gibson, Plant...)
• A Movieshelf of 43 films (Tarkovsky, Kubrick, Bergman, Wong Kar-wai, Park Chan-wook...)
• Interactive vector field background with keyboard controls
• A persistent music player with Web Audio visualiser
• Telescopic text — progressive disclosure via expandable inline passages
• Graph view, backlinks, full-text search, dark mode, reader mode

Local development

npx quartz build --serve --port 3000

Publish

npx quartz sync

Technical notes

See CLAUDE.md for detailed architecture, plugin documentation, and session logs.

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