The channel
Essayistic episodes, fifteen to twenty minutes each, no face on camera. Each one names a load-bearing structural move and shows it operating in places no one was looking for it.
Before the Argument Starts
Built from the paper The Baseline Problem
Every system that distinguishes intervention from non-intervention must first decide what counts as non-intervention. That decision is normally treated as a factual given. It isn't. It's a governance choice, and usually the most consequential one the system makes.
Episodes
Application episodes draw on a single paper at a time. Spine episodes will teach the framework's primitives (recursion, refusal, witness, interruption) one at a time, in order.
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Before the Argument Starts
Built from The Baseline Problem
The most consequential decision any institution makes is what it counts as doing nothing. The episode shows the move operating in places (welfare, climate policy, content moderation) where no one was looking for it.
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More episodes are in production
The next application episodes will draw from papers already on PhilArchive. The first spine episode will introduce recursion, the framework's foundational primitive.