Project 01 · Working title
When Institutions Stop Answering Back
This draft examines who can explain and defend institutional decisions when automated procedures take over parts of the reasoning. A named supervisor may remain in place without being able to question or change what the system decides.
Main question
Who can answer for an automated institutional decision, and what do they need to do so meaningfully?
Status and planned work
Draft manuscript, 2026; companion paper on typologies of answerability failure.
Project 02 · Working title
Standing Is Not an Ordering
The partition thesis separates two questions: who counts morally, and whose claims take priority? Using information ethics as a test case, this paper argues that an inclusive account of moral standing does not by itself tell us how to rank competing claims. The manuscript is under review.
Main question
Does knowing who counts morally tell us whose claims should come first?
Status and planned work
Journal article (under review, 2026); follow-up paper on standing and ordering in AI moral-status debates.
Project 03 · Working title
Comparative Desire and Social Violence
Digital platforms do more than display inequality. They can shape what people feel entitled to, and turn frustrated expectations into grievance. This paper examines how comparison can contribute to social violence. It is published in Philosophy & Social Criticism.
Main question
When does comparison with others turn into a sense of injustice, and how can that lead to social violence?
Status and planned work
Journal article (Philosophy & Social Criticism, 2026); book-length treatment of post-mimetic relationality as a general social configuration.
Project 04 · Working title
Second-Order Provenance
Knowing where data came from is not enough. We also need to know who chose the thresholds, rankings, and categories used to interpret it, and why those choices are justified. This project calls that second-order provenance and develops a way to examine it in institutions.
Main question
Can an institution account for both its data and the rules that make that data matter?
Status and planned work
Working paper; operational audit framework co-developed with ClaimBuilder.ai; workshop paper on institutional recordkeeping as moral infrastructure.