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The AI Dividend Is Not Enough: Who Authors the Automated Economy?

August 16, 2023

Sharing automation's gains matters. So does preserving the knowledge, resources and authority to decide what automation is for. My illustration entitled: "The Loom of the Automated Future" - intelligen...

Platform Sovereignty: When Private Platforms Become Economic Institutions

April 30, 2023

Opinion, Visual Arts

My illustration entitled: "The Locked Audience" — Creators stand behind glass, separated from the communities they built on a platform they do not own. A platform is not merely a private service when l...

Who Guards the Reauthors? Preventing Capture of Public Revision

December 14, 2022

Opinion, Visual Arts

Why institutions that enable public authorship must remain open to scrutiny, challenge and replacement. My illustration entitled: "The Watchtower With Windows on Every Side" - citizens oversee a flouri...

Public Procurement for Public Authorship: Buying Capability, Not Permanent Dependence

May 14, 2021

Opinion, Visual Arts

Public contracts should deliver useful services while preserving the knowledge, resources and authority needed to decide what comes next. My illustration entitled: "The Golden Key and the Locked Machin...

The Economic Sovereignty Matrix: Power, Friction, Alternatives and Capability

December 6, 2020

Opinion, Visual Arts

My illustration entitled: "The Observatory of Economic Power" - Inside a mountain-sized observatory, four enormous lenses examine the same trading city. One reveals controlling hands, another hidden bottlen...

Change Without Collapse: Reauthorism and the Continuity of Essential Services

September 16, 2020

Opinion, Visual Arts

Meaningful public authority requires both a practical capacity to revise essential systems and dependable protection for the people who rely on them. My illustration entitled: "The Aqueduct and the New...

State-Platform Gatekeeping: When Public and Private Permissions Converge

June 22, 2018

Opinion, Visual Arts

My illustration entitled: "The Handshake Above the Gates" - Two immense figures—an armoured state guardian and a translucent corporate intelligence—shake hands above a crowded city entrance. Their joined wr...

Contestable Economic Power: Why Institutions Must Remain Challengeable

April 30, 2018

Uncategorized

My illustration entitled: "The Glass Fortress" — A grand institutional fortress has transparent walls, allowing citizens to see and challenge what happens inside. Power becomes dangerous when the peopl...

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