Philipe Barsamian is an independent researcher based in Montréal. His work studies how meaning and validity emerge when systems cannot simply resolve instability—when they must stabilize under pressure, feedback, and remainder.
Rather than treating representation as a mirror of the world, he treats it as an interface: a set of linking rules that make heterogeneous material commensurable, reproducible, and revisable. Across domains, his central question is how such rules hold—when they drift, when they harden, and what forms of agency exist in the gap between commitment and realization.
His current research develops a framework of folding and stabilization operators, including formal results on paraconsistent normalization and recursive modality (where necessity does not collapse into actuality). In parallel, he applies the same lens to contemporary algorithmic systems and to aesthetic regimes of legibility, analyzing where “ground truth” and visibility are produced through procedures, thresholds, and governance rather than discovered as simple facts.
Across these contexts, his aim is to build concepts and methods that can be shared, tested, and revised: tools for keeping ambiguity operational without turning it into noise or forcing it into closure.