PHYSIØGNØ/MI∆
if the body is a medium, the face is the message
PHYSIØGNØ/MI∆ is a face-analysis tool built on an old pseudoscience and a new machine. Physiognomy — the claim that character can be read from the shape of a face — runs from Giambattista della Porta (1586) and Johann Caspar Lavater (1775–78) to Cesare Lombroso's criminal anthropology (1876). Here it meets a 21st-century landmark detector that maps 478 points of a face, to produce something that shouldn't exist: an objective-seeming verdict on a face.
The tool works. That's the problem. It processes your face with the same technical precision that surveillance systems use, that screening algorithms use, that the beauty industry uses. The methodology is different. The structural logic is identical.
Five modes: base analysis, deviation map, Galton's composite face, live webcam, historical sources. Every index is a proxy of a historical instrument; every source is listed, every quotation checked. What you take away are archival plates — a specimen, a report, a text file — and a generated verdict that sounds authoritative because precision sounds authoritative, regardless of what it is actually measuring.
Ok pretty face. Your images never leave your device: face detection runs locally in your browser, and nothing is stored. If the AI verdict is active, only the numbers — never the image — are sent to Anthropic's Claude API to write the text. Here visits are counted, not people: GoatCounter, open source, no cookies. It sees the page, where you came from and your browser, keeps only the totals, and forgets you.
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