Wing two
The Governed State
The state itself, and the record it keeps.
The same question asked of government. Psephos is the coming main series on making the state traceable, approached along two paths: Phronesis explains why the lesson keeps going unlearned, and Seira follows how a currency built to hide became the record that cannot lie. The two paths are joined at a keystone, and Psephos rises from it.
Series in this wing
PhronesisAvailable
Praxis · available now · 3 papers
Three papers on the historical precedent for technological upheaval, the present economic and civil reality of artificial intelligence, and the policy an unlearned history is about to force upon us.
SeiraIn preparation
Praxis · in preparation · 3 papers
A coming series on the strangest reversal in the history of money: the dream of hiding, the great unmasking, and the mirror an unbreakable ledger turns on power. It joins Phronesis at the keystone from which Psephos rises.
PsephosIn preparation
Main series · in preparation · 6 papers
A coming series on traceable government: the history of the forms of rule, why democracy’s feedback loop is the least bad and the most corruptible, and how an unbroken ledger could make the vote unassailable and the manifesto a binding baseline.
Reading order
Phronesis first, then Seira. The two are joined at the keystone, Setting the Keystone, and Psephos rises from it.