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The Aesthetic Encounter and Its Limit
A layered account of aesthetic reception asks what can be described without a prior verdict of value—and where that diagnostic must stop.
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Art as an Epistemic Tool for Indigenous Sovereignty
How can art support Indigenous knowledge-making and sovereignty while remaining governed by the communities whose lives and knowledge are involved?
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Living Continuance: The Ethical Theory
A developing ethical theory of sustaining, repairing, and revising the conditions through which persons and peoples can live worthwhile lives together.
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Art-Status Is Not Legitimacy: Framing, Standing, and the Authority to Make Art-Relations
Making something function as art and having rightful authority to do so are different questions. This paper examines framing, standing, and contested art-relations.
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Agency in Motion: The Return of Listening
How can we judge responsibly when records, memories, and other traces carry information about a life without carrying the whole life?
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Answerable Roles: Conscience, Gatekeeping, and Institutional Obstruction
A serious reason to refuse participation does not by itself establish authority to retain records, delay decisions, or obstruct another person’s care.
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What Compliance Requires: Moral Obligation, Bodily Use, and Abortion Law
Even if a moral duty is granted, what gives the state authority over the bodily support that compliance would require?
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People-Rooted Sovereignty Under Constraint: Indigenous Self-Government, Relational Answerability, and the Refusal of Domination
How can a people retain political authority when the conditions for exercising it have been constrained, damaged, or appropriated?
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People-Rooted Sovereignty: Definition and Guardrails
A dated framework for people-rooted authority, accountable governance, and sovereignty under constraint, with guardrails against capture and domination.
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The American Tax Plan
A working proposal connecting tax responsibility with economic capacity, public benefit, and protections for households, communities, and Tribal sovereignty.
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Fractured Authority and Condition-Control in Gaza
A public report tracing how control over access, services, and infrastructure shapes civilian life, responsibility, and repair in Gaza.
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The System Model of Art: A Relational Threshold Theory of Art-Entry
A theory of art-entry that separates art-status from interpretation, quality, legitimacy, ownership, and access. The paper asks what expressive framing, form, and encounter make possible—and what they do not authorize.