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Publications / Analyses
The World Does Not Fit into a Single Answer
A dispute over the redesign of a city street is rarely about painted lines alone. The shopkeeper watches how many drivers can stop nearby. The parent walking a child to school notices the length of the crossing and the timing of the lights. The cyclist thinks about opening car do...
A Search Result Is Not Yet Knowledge
On a Sunday evening, a parent types a deceptively simple question into a search box: “How much screen time is harmful for a nine-year-old?” Within seconds, the browser offers a child psychologist’s interview, two news stories pointing in opposite directions, a parenting forum, a...
Debate Is Not a Duel
A family argument begins with a delay. One person says: you failed to let me know again. The other replies: it was only ten minutes. The first hears a problem of reliability; the second hears an attempt at control. They refer to the same evening, yet they are measuring different...
The Sentence That Promises More
Every sentence in the product presentation seems perfectly reasonable. The new AI system speeds up case handling by forty per cent, reduces errors, supports fairer decisions, and complies with European regulation. The slides are elegant, the charts all move upward, and the footno...
Too Much Fits Inside a Single Vote
The ballot leaves one mark behind. Before that mark, however, there were housing, education, public spending, foreign policy, taxation, healthcare, cultural regulation and several other questions on which the same person may hold positions that point in different directions.
How Much Can a Sentence Carry?
Context, meaning, and the moment a short answer outgrows the job it was built to do What colour is the sky? Blue. For a child’s drawing, that is a perfectly serviceable answer. It usually works in casual conversation as well. In an atmospheric optics exam it is insufficient, and...
After Critique, Something Remains
A plan to rebuild a public square can be dismantled with ease. The traffic model is too optimistic. The consultation process gives residents the appearance of influence rather than meaningful control. The cost estimate excludes part of the maintenance burden. The rendering shows...
Building Worlds from Consequences
Imagine a city in which every adult carries a public reliability score. The system compresses loan repayments, traffic offences, workplace reviews and civic reports into a single number. The story opens with someone waking to discover that their score has fallen by twenty-seven p...
Recognition Is Not Proof
It is after two in the morning. Someone notices a pattern linking problems that had previously seemed unrelated. At first the idea is merely interesting. Then it begins to fit more cases than expected. They describe it to a language model. The response is orderly, enthusiastic an...
Uncertainty Is Not Helplessness
A blood test is booked for 8:10 in the morning. There was food in the early hours, a sip of soft drink later, and several beers the previous evening. At that point nobody is trying to solve a philosophy of science problem. The practical questions are narrower: should the appointm...
The Narrow Ground Between Self-Description and Self-Myth
A cursor blinks in an empty professional profile. The platform wants a short introduction: a few lines that explain who this person is, what they are good at, what they have built, and why anyone should pay attention. The life behind the box is less cooperative. It contains years...
Awe Without Mystification
An old recording shows people running toward a collapsing building while every sensible reflex points the other way. Another scene holds on a hospital corridor, where someone waits with a parcel for a stranger. Then a familiar piece of music reaches the passage that has produced...
The System Is Not the Interface
A user presses “approve”. The screen dims for a fraction of a second, a check mark appears, and the decision seems to have happened inside that small rectangle. In the background, records may have changed, permissions may have taken effect, notifications may have been sent, a fin...
Literature as a Laboratory of Consequences
Hamlet has reason to doubt. Faust has reason to be dissatisfied. Adam has reason to keep asking whether human history has a direction that will not be consumed by its own consequences. None of this establishes that they act well. One of literature's strengths is precisely that it...
What Is a Diagram For When It Is Not Decoration?
Someone projects a system diagram in a meeting room. The boxes align, the arrows behave, the colours look as though they were selected by a committee that finally agreed on something. For a few minutes the system appears visible. Then the person who works inside it every day poin...
When AI Agrees Too Beautifully
During a long evening conversation, someone uploads twenty pages of notes about a new theory. The question is not which parts can be tested. It is whether the framework has indeed brought several old problems into a single structure. The answer is courteous. It highlights origina...
A Game Does Not Teach Only When It Tests You
As a personal account rather than externally verifiable project history: in 2007 I used SQL to turn Greek myths into quests on a private World of Warcraft server. The story of Amphion became a chain of thirteen missions. The player did not click through a digital textbook. They t...
Gods Are Not Laboratory Notebooks
Apollo holds an awkward number of functions together. He is bright and distant. He gives oracles, orders music, heals, and at the beginning of the Iliad sends plague into the Achaean camp with his arrows. The epithet “Phoebus” means bright or radiant, while Delphic Apollo became...
From Humanity Drama to Space Sitcom
Some works do not merely tell a story. They attempt to place the whole human undertaking on a stage at once. Dante leads the reader through an afterlife organised as moral architecture. Goethe's Faust wants knowledge, experience, power and self-justification without knowing in ad...
When the Body Feels Physics
A person can know that balance depends on the relation between centre of mass and base of support, then lose balance immediately when a partner changes the direction of force. Nothing mysterious has happened. Verbal knowledge and usable coordination simply occupy different forms.
Movement Thinks Too
The player runs down a corridor, turns slightly before the wall, jumps, and draws an arc through the air that looks more like a mistake than an intentional technique. The next attempt is faster and still worse. The third almost reaches the opposite ledge, but the accumulated spee...
Virtual Communities, Real Institutions
Friday, eight in the evening. Eighteen of the twenty players are already waiting at the entrance, two are late, one healer’s microphone crackles, the tank has new equipment that has not yet been tested, and someone announced on the forum that afternoon that they were tired of “co...
The Body as an Editable Interface
A person puts on glasses in the morning, checks an insulin pump, replaces the battery in a hearing aid and covers an old surgical scar with a tattoo. None of these actions feels like science fiction. Yet together they open an uncomfortably large question: where does the body we a...
Comedy as a Civilizational Stress Test
In a corporate laboratory, motion-sensitive doors fail to open for Black employees because the system recognizes light skin more reliably. Management does not replace the technology. It assigns white colleagues to accompany Black staff and open the doors for them. The scene is on...
When Movement Becomes Metaphor
A political analyst says that society’s centre of gravity has shifted. An economist says the market has gained momentum. A manager wants to streamline an organization, an activist wants to apply pressure, and a therapist speaks about restoring balance. We talk about society throu...
