Notes
Essays and working notes
Shorter pieces that connect the concepts, publications, and applied work of the programme.
29 August 2026 · 6 min read
Comparative Desire and Social Violence
A new article in Philosophy & Social Criticism argues that comparative relations do not merely shape responses to unequal outcomes but constitute the sense of entitlement through which those outcomes are experienced as unfair.
24 August 2026 · 5 min read
When responsibility is real: exercisable answerability
Exercisable answerability distinguishes being formally assigned responsibility from actually being able to answer for what has been done — and explains why retaining a human decision-maker is not enough to preserve human judgment.
11 August 2026 · 9 min read
The Vocabulary in One Piece: How the Concepts Fit Together
A single walk through the working vocabulary of the programme — inferential license, judgment gap, second-order provenance, the partition thesis, ethical disclosure, comparative entitlement formation, post-mimetic relationality, epistemic infrastructure, systemic friction, and automated certainty — and how each concept depends on the others.