Literature and consequence publications
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...
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...
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...
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...
