Research · Documentary · Public Reason
Independent media & research
Explore how power, work, history, and technology shape our lives. Follow the evidence behind the arguments.
Selected reading
These are summaries of working papers. Each page explains its sources and limitations.
Volume IV
Volume IV’s inquiry into how technology and economic conditions reshape intimacy. It connects automation, precarious work, digital mediation, social isolation, declining birth rates, and identity to a larger question: what institutions make durable human connection possible when interaction becomes increasingly mediated?
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A policy and political-economy frame for the unequal timing costs of biology, caregiving, education, career progression, and bureaucracy. It argues for equity rather than identical treatment and connects fertility care, parental leave, migration, taxation, and human capital without claiming one universal solution.
Read the summary →Volume III
A Volume III policy proposal asking whether tax rules can treat time spent acquiring skills as an investment rather than only a private cost. It connects wage relief, ownership income, eligibility, documentation, reporting, and audit design to the question of how public systems can recognize work and redistribute security.
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Four audio essays on power, memory, work, and capability.
The four-volume project
Choose a volume to enter the research. The volumes remain in development.