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.