Policy and Critique

How architectural and spatial design influence social dynamics, control, and power structures in organizations and societies.

The open-plan office is often presented as the embodiment of modern organizational virtues, promising collaboration, creativity, and egalitarianism. This design, however, frequently delivers the opposite results, cultivating distraction, anxiety, and a debilitating pressure to appear productive. The shift away from ...

Explore how shrinkflation silently increases costs through reduced product sizes, revealing the psychology of consumer inattentiveness and the power dynamics in modern retail economics.

A forensic investigation into the VOC's systematic destruction of the Banda Archipelago.

Exploring the systemic erasure of the Bandanese through starvation blockades and the slave-labor repopulation.

Analyzing the military choreography and manufactured "plots" used to justify the 1621 campaign.

A deep analytical investigation into the systemic violence and atrocities of the Dutch East India Company.

Exploring the global trafficking of human labor and the deliberate destruction of ecosystems for profit.

Analyzing the direct military violence used to secure global spice monopolies in Banda and Ambon.

No energy source generates more fear per kilojoule produced or kills fewer people per terawatt-hour generated. The nuclear accounting problem is a problem of denominator confusion: the rare but vivid accidents receive the scrutiny that the continuous and ordinary deaths from air pollution do not. The Lifetime Risk-Adjusted Carbon Score compares every major electricity source on a common basis and the result inverts the conventional hierarchy of fear.