In a space between past and present, nostalgia and jargon, sign and image, Dialetica is an experimental single-channel video that explores the conditions of coded contradiction. Set in a former 1950s gas station museum in rural Missouri, the vintage automobiles and faded mannequins are imbued with the myth of American exceptionalism. As the video moves forward, it also moves backward, causing the video to tremble and malfunction like an electronic material unable to resolve, expressing a kind of computational poetry that finds a new state in the medium.