About
Duckrates is an art project that offers a glimpse into Deniz’s inner world — his thoughts, intuitions, visions, uncertainties, and artistic expression. It is written by a small group of approved authors and read by anyone.
The six sections
- I. AI
- Machine cognition — and the questions it forces us to ask about our own minds.Figure: Alan Turing (1912–1954)
- II. Tech
- The tools we build, and the cultures they quietly rewrite.Figure: Ada Lovelace (1815–1852)
- III. Philosophy
- First questions, and the discipline of not looking away.Figure: Socrates (c. 470–399 BCE)
- IV. Sociology
- How societies hold together — and how they come apart.Figure: Michel Foucault (1926–1984)
- V. Politics
- Power, legitimacy, and the long argument about living together.Figure: Hannah Arendt (1906–1975)
- VI. History
- The past as argument — never a settled record, always a contested one.Figure: Napoleon Bonaparte (1769–1821)
Type & colour
Headings and body text are set in Georgia, a serif built for the page. Interface labels — navigation, buttons, captions — are set in the system sans, small and wide-tracked, so the reader never mistakes furniture for prose.
Vellum
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Deep vellum
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Ink
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Terracotta
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Rule
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The duck
Every archive needs a keeper. Ours paddles along the rule line of the homepage — a reminder that reason, like a duck, looks calm above the water and works hard below it.
Write for us
Authors write in a dashboard and publish on a schedule. New accounts are reviewed by an editor before they can sign in.