literature-map lets you search for authors within literature (and philosophy).The application visualises the proximity of the authors/thinkers in a relational network. Authors like Jelinek, Houellebecq, Foucault, Eco for example, are bunched in tag clouds based on affiliations and influences.

The literature map is part of gnooks, 'a self-adapting community system' to search for books and writers. gnod in turn is 'a search-engine to find things you don't know about.' You can search music, books, movies or find like-minded people. The entire system leads back to the 'virtual playground' of Marek Gibney.