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Structures of Confidence: Labour, Participation, and Centralisation.
I have spent much of my life in places where people gather to learn something about their own capacities. In union education, these places were often practical rooms: the kind with mismatched chairs, a kettle in the corner, and a noticeboard that told you more about the community than any textbook could. In universities, the…
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Why no new essays since January?
Many of the ideas that previously appeared here have been transferred to my more developmental ontology site, where they can be explored in greater depth and within a more formal structure. Essays continues to serve a different purpose. Rather than pursuing comprehensive explanations or proposing solutions, it focuses on clarifying questions, examining observations, and making…
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Essays on Method II: On Taking a Position
– Securing the terrain An essay often begins with a claim that feels too sharp, too certain, too easily said.Something like: Every generation thinks the world is getting worse. A sentence that appears to know exactly what it means. A sentence that arrives fully formed, carrying with it assumptions, memories, frustrations and half-forgotten experiences. A…
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Essays on Method I: Dig Where You Stand
– The beginning of the method The moment that set this essay in motion wasn’t dramatic. It was just my phone, rocking gently on the desk, refusing to do the one simple thing I needed it to do. I didn’t expect the first words to begin with something so ordinary. But that’s where it began.…