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When Knowledge Production No Longer Requires Knowing: Rethinking Gewu Zhizhi (Investigating Things and Extending Knowledge) in the Age of AI

This essay reconsiders gewu zhizhi (investigating things and extending knowledge) under a technological condition in which propositions, explanations, distinctions, questions, and even apparently reflective trajectories of inquiry can be produced before an equivalent process of h...

A Theory of Manufactured Vulnerability in Relations of Domination

Assistance can improve a person's circumstances while sustaining an unjust account of the relationship in which the assistance occurs. This paper develops a theory of a specific mechanism of domination: actors contribute to another party's vulnerability, restrict the practical po...

Sustaining Generativity under Epistemic Capitalism: A Praxis for the Epistemic Proletariat

This paper develops a praxis for sustaining inquiry under unequal control of its material and institutional conditions. It defines the epistemic proletariat relationally through the dependence of inquiry-capable people and collectives on externally governed means of production an...

A Generative Relational Ethics of Knowledge-Capital Expansion in Public Knowledge

This paper develops a generative relational approach to the ethics of knowledge-capital expansion in public knowledge. Public knowledge enables learning, reuse, recombination, circulation, and cumulative epistemic development, while the same processes may also contribute to conce...

Factual Governance and Jurisprudence in Public Knowledge

Public knowledge is constituted through relations that extend beyond the categories ordinarily recognized by legal rights and legal adjudication. Questions concerning provenance, historical priority, attribution, recognition, authorship, modification, responsibility, and social s...

Rethinking the Emergence of Relational Trust: Lacanian Psychoanalysis, Dynamical Systems, and Epistemic Limits

Relational trust is frequently inferred from cooperation, disclosure, reported confidence, or repeated successful interaction. Each indicator can also arise through sanction, habit, dependence, strategic calculation, attachment, or transferential supposition. This paper develops...

Knowledge-Capital Expansion in Modernity: Public Knowledge and Epistemic Capitalization in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

This paper examines knowledge-capital expansion under modern conditions, with particular attention to the transformation of public knowledge into recursively expanding epistemic capacity. Building on the concepts of knowledge capital and epistemic capitalization, the inquiry situ...

Factual Governance and Jurisprudence in Public Knowledge

Public knowledge is constituted through relations that extend beyond the categories ordinarily recognized by legal rights and legal adjudication. Questions concerning provenance, historical priority, attribution, recognition, authorship, modification, responsibility, and social s...

Knowledge-Capital Expansion in Modernity: Public Knowledge and Epistemic Capitalization in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

This paper examines knowledge-capital expansion under modern conditions, with particular attention to the transformation of public knowledge into recursively expanding epistemic capacity. Building on the concepts of knowledge capital and epistemic capitalization, the inquiry situ...

Rethinking the Emergence of Relational Trust: Lacanian Psychoanalysis, Dynamical Systems, and Epistemic Limits

Relational trust is frequently inferred from cooperation, disclosure, reported confidence, or repeated successful interaction. Each indicator can also arise through sanction, habit, dependence, strategic calculation, attachment, or transferential supposition. This paper develops...

A Generative Relational Ethics of Knowledge-Capital Expansion in Public Knowledge

This paper develops a generative relational approach to the ethics of knowledge-capital expansion in public knowledge. Public knowledge enables learning, reuse, recombination, circulation, and cumulative epistemic development, while the same processes may also contribute to conce...

Lacanian Psychoanalysis and Relational Field Dynamics: Toward a Dynamical Geometry of Subjective Trajectories

This paper develops a preliminary field-dynamical framework for representing subjective trajectories in Lacanian psychoanalysis. Building on a discrete generative account of psychoanalytic traversal, the present study examines how historically situated subjective configurations m...

Knowledge-Capital Expansion in the Public Knowledge Commons: A Foundational Inquiry

This paper develops a foundational inquiry into knowledge-capital expansion under conditions of public knowledge. Its starting point is the observation that epistemic resources may influence more than the immediate production of knowledge. Accumulated propositions, questions, con...

Lacanian Psychoanalysis and Relational Field Dynamics: Toward a Dynamical Geometry of Subjective Trajectories

This paper develops a preliminary field-dynamical framework for representing subjective trajectories in Lacanian psychoanalysis. Building on a discrete generative account of psychoanalytic traversal, the present study examines how historically situated subjective configurations m...

The Spacetime of Desire: Emergent Relational Geometry through Spin-Foam and Group-Field-Theoretic Formalisms

This discussion paper develops a revisable account of historically constituted subjective possibility as an emergent relational geometry. The expression spacetime of desire names a scale-indexed organization of accessibility, obstruction, detour, repetition, and trajectory suppor...

Knowledge-Capital Expansion in the Public Knowledge Commons: A Foundational Inquiry

This paper develops a foundational inquiry into knowledge-capital expansion under conditions of public knowledge. Its starting point is the observation that epistemic resources may influence more than the immediate production of knowledge. Accumulated propositions, questions, con...

Generativity Contamination and Generative Pollution in Generative Relational Systems

This discussion paper develops two related concepts for examining alterations within Generative Relational Systems: generativity contamination and generative pollution. The distinction begins from the premise that generation depends both on the organization through which a system...

Relational Conditions of Subjective Continuity: Reflections on Interpersonal and Non-Interpersonal Relations

Accounts of subjectivity frequently assign central roles to sociality, recognition, attachment, language, and interpersonal relations. A substantial psychological literature also supports the importance of stable social bonds for well-being and health. This paper accepts those fi...

Transformations between Structural and Spectral-Temporal Representations in Generative-Relational Governance

This paper develops a transformation framework connecting structural and spectral-temporal representations of governance within a generative-relational approach. Building on two previously distinguished representational coordinates, Type-I governance describes intervention throug...

Transcendent Mediation in Marital Commitment: Symbolic Insufficiency, Ritual Regeneration, and Relational Generativity

Marital commitment connects a present symbolic act with a relational future whose participants, circumstances, interpretations, and possible trajectories remain open to generation. Legal, social, and religious institutions can establish status, recognition, obligation, memory, an...