Projects

Living Continuance

Full developing theory available · reading links updated 28 September 2026

What makes it worthwhile to sustain, repair, or change the conditions through which people learn, care, create, and live together?

Read now: Living Continuance: The Ethical Theory, the full account through 23 September 2026, with a downloadable reading edition. A Reason to Help and Who Carries the Movement? offer shorter entries into positive reasons and sustaining work.

Still open: The grounds of interpersonal reasons, the further grounds of duties, contributors’ limits, and priority among serious claims. Later assistance and allocation work continues these questions; the public theory remains unfinished.

When Harm Becomes Evidence

Revised preprint · full public text available · 27 September 2026

How can an institutional wrong produce a record that later becomes evidence against the person or relationship already harmed? This paper follows that process through records, classifications, and later decisions. It asks when institutions should investigate how evidence was produced and what correction or repair should follow.

Read now: When Harm Becomes Evidence: Recursive Cascade, Institutional Records, and Repair, the 3 September 2026 revised preprint, and the related working essay After Return. This public edition is a preprint; no journal acceptance is claimed.

Still open: Further testing of the framework and its applications. The account requires independent grounds for identifying a wrong; it does not establish wrongdoing merely because a harmful outcome occurred.

The earlier Protected Conditions work remains part of the paper’s development history. When Harm Becomes Evidence is the current paper in that line.

Fractured Authority and Condition-Control in Gaza

Public working report · web edition v1.6.0 · 28 September 2026

Who controls the conditions civilians need to live, receive care, and rebuild, and how should responsibility follow those specific forms of control? This report follows access, services, infrastructure, records, and recovery while distinguishing each actor’s powers and obligations.

Read now: Fractured Authority and Condition-Control in Gaza, with a linked contents list, sources, a claim-checking method, and a downloadable historical development archive. The September web edition uses the August public report as its base; its humanitarian examples cover July–August 2026.

Still open: Incident-specific attribution requires case records connecting an actor, decision, and harm. Later factual updates need dated sources. The report offers analysis and proposals for prevention and repair; it is not a continuously updated situation report or a new judicial determination.

Political economy and public return

Working proposal available · 26 September 2026

How should tax responsibility reflect economic capacity, and how should the public be able to judge what it receives in return? This work examines taxes, wealth, work, public capacity, and the conditions that economic institutions create for people and communities.

Read now: The American Tax Plan, which includes an introduction and the full working paper. The Public Companion provides a brief, glossary, and evaluation examples. Both are listed on Work.

Still open: Independent revenue estimates, expert review, implementation questions, and tests of the proposal’s protections for ordinary households, communities, and Tribal sovereignty. The plan is an authored proposal, not enacted policy.

Answerability, knowledge, and media

Public preprints and guide available · 27 September 2026

What makes a consequential claim answerable to its evidence, limits, and effects? How should information retain its provenance and the authority to refuse or correct its use as it moves?

Read now: The Audit, public preprint v0.2.2; Shoreline Framework, preprint v0.15; and SIFT: A Media Sorting Guide. The Sift Room applies public inquiry to particular cases. Who Gets to Hear One Another? examines how systems of visibility affect communication in Indian Country and beyond.

Still open: Validation, comparison with other methods, and testing in concrete settings. A public framework is not evidence of empirical effectiveness or institutional adoption. Later controlled operating packages are separate from these public editions.

Property and freedom

Public circulation draft and selected framework available · 27 September 2026

What do property decisions sever beyond a formal allocation of rights, and what material and institutional conditions make meaningful action possible?

Read now: Standing and Sustaining, circulation draft v0.3.1, and Canonical Freedom Architecture, selected public edition v2.5.

Still open: Further argument, comparison, and application. These edition labels identify the public texts; they do not make later development versions public or establish their conclusions.

Agency First

Public working article and earlier companion available · 27 September 2026

When does moral concern become a claim of authority over another person’s body, and what makes refusal meaningful?

Read now: Agency First: Bodily Non-Conscription and Temporal Recognition, public working article v0.7.1. The Field Manual is an earlier v1.2.1 companion; some of its formulations are refined in the later article.

Still open: The later manuscripts What Compliance Requires and Answerable Roles develop different parts of this question. Each has its own dated draft and revision notes.

People-Rooted Sovereignty

Dated framework and scholarly companion available · 28 September 2026

How can a people retain authority when the conditions for exercising it have been constrained, damaged, or appropriated?

Read now: The scholarly companion (working draft v1.1-dev.7c, 9 August 2026) and the complete v5.9 framework (11 March 2026). These are distinct publications. The framework is presented as a historical working edition; the companion is the later article-length argument.

Still open: v6 framework development, situated human review, and the unfinished membership and emergency-authority work. The current development records do not supply an assembled replacement framework. Neither public edition implies adoption by a Nation or grants outside actors authority to judge Indigenous political legitimacy.

Pit River Land, Reservation & Dispossession Research

Archival research in progress · 26 September 2026

What do the primary records establish about the attempted Pitt River reservation, later land decisions, and the history of dispossession? The project brings administrative correspondence, surveys, maps, and land records into relation while keeping established findings separate from unresolved interpretations.

Available here: This research overview. The working source dossier is not released through this page.

Still open: The survey chronology, geographic reconstruction, and earliest parcel dispositions. Formal withdrawal and reservation establishment remain unproved in the current research record.

Agency in Motion

Full developmental manuscript available · draft 0.4.2 · 8 September 2026

How can we understand, judge, and respond to a life when what reaches us consists of partial traces?

Read now: Agency in Motion: The Return of Listening, the lineage-conformed manuscript, with a PDF reading edition. Related work includes When Harm Becomes Evidence and Shoreline Framework.

Still open: Foundations, the scope of the argument, and review by human readers outside the development process. Its institutional tests are not presented as empirically validated.

Resilient Governance

Framework in development · 26 September 2026

How can institutions sustain the conditions people rely on before a failure becomes a crisis? This work concerns infrastructure, care, economic stability, alternative ways to maintain essential services, and the practical capacity to continue through disruption.

Available here: This project description.

Still open: Selecting a concrete public application and testing what the framework adds in that setting. A general framework and a demonstrated method remain different stages of the work.

What Compliance Requires

Working manuscript v0.7.4 available · 1 August 2026

Even when a moral duty is granted, what gives the state authority over the bodily support that compliance would require?

Read now: What Compliance Requires: Moral Obligation, Bodily Use, and Abortion Law, with the full text and PDF. Agency First is the related public working article.

Still open: Further criticism, revision, and the publication process. This dated author manuscript is not a claim of journal acceptance or a current legal guide.

Answerable Roles

Author manuscript v1.6 available · 8 August 2026 · revision open

When someone refuses participation on grounds of conscience, what authority do they retain over another person’s access to care?

Read now: Answerable Roles: Conscience, Gatekeeping, and Institutional Obstruction, the identified author manuscript. What Compliance Requires develops the related distinction between duty and enforcement authority.

Still open: Reconciliation of the two v1.6 builds and revisions to the authority test, emergency argument, and literature discussion. The public draft is not a final or accepted journal edition.

Art-Status Is Not Legitimacy

Working manuscript v1.2 available · 31 May 2026

What does making something function as art establish, and what questions about rightful authority remain?

Read now: Art-Status Is Not Legitimacy, the threshold-fortified journal-length draft. The System Model of Art supplies the broader art framework; The Aesthetic Encounter and Its Limit turns to reception.

Still open: Further review and the publication process. Art-status, artistic value, and legitimate authority remain distinct questions.

Art and Indigenous sovereignty

Working application · recovered manuscript edition · made available 28 September 2026

How can art support knowledge-making and sovereignty on Indigenous terms?

Read now: Art as an Epistemic Tool for Indigenous Sovereignty, with the recovered text and a PDF download.

Still open: The application’s proposals need community-governed testing; digital tools do not substitute for land, living continuity, or political authority.

The Aesthetic Encounter

Assembled working draft · Paper 3 · citation work remains open · made available 28 September 2026

What can a value-neutral account of aesthetic reception establish, and where must it stop?

Read now: The Aesthetic Encounter and Its Limit, with the recovered text and a PDF download.

Still open: Citation locators, the philosophical limit argument, and whether mode-salience remains free of an evaluative shadow in practice.

The Sieve Problem

Development charter v0.1 · 20 June 2026 · made available 28 September 2026

How do institutions preserve the language of their commitments while allowing condition-damaging harms to recur through accepted procedures?

Read now: The Sieve Problem: Project Charter and Development Status, with the recovered text and a PDF download.

Still open: A completed integrated treatise has not been recovered. The charter, the partial related article, and the operational Audit are distinct objects.