Wanhong HUANG

When Happiness Emerges: Notes from Ginza Street on the Conditions of Reception

Ordinary description of a street encounter reaches for verbs of transport: happiness spreads, is shared, is caught. This essay works from four scenes observed on a single day in Ginza and asks what that vocabulary commits us to. It commits us to a quantity that moves and is conse...

The Governance of Co-Experience Transmission: A Generative Relational Theory of Institutional Design under Interpretive Asymmetry

An account of a shared experience is composed by one participant in a relation and used by a third party who took no part in it. An earlier paper in this series established how positive law allocates authority over such an account and stated the conditions any defensible allocati...

Recommendation Injustice: Pathologies of Shared-Experience Transmission through the Alienation of Recommenders into Relational Credit

Institutions that select people ask others to vouch for them. This paper asks what circulates when they do. Classical political economy studies the circulation of goods, and the economics of collateral-free lending the circulation of skill where no assessment reaches; what a refe...

Power in Recommendation and the Jurisprudence of Co-Experience: Who Has the Right to Interpret, Contest, Transmit, and Reproduce Shared Experience?

An account of a shared experience is composed by one participant in a relation and used by a third party who did not participate in it, while the person it describes is ordinarily absent. This paper asks what rights attach to such an account and to whom, treating interpretation,...