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An Anatomy of Injustice in the Emergence of Knowledge Among Heterogeneous Systems: A Preliminary Discussion in Generative Relational Terms of the Diplomatic Case

A claim made by one party to another travels a course before it becomes anything the two hold in common. It is rendered into an event, construed at the far end by procedures the sending party does not run, registered or left unregistered in whatever description the parties share,...

Diplomacy in a World of Heterogeneous Knowledge Systems: Exploring Generative Relational Systems Perspectives and Formal Models

International arrangements are made among parties that differ in what counts, for each of them, as showing that a claim is so. This paper treats that difference as its object, taking a knowledge system to be the verification component of a normative order given dynamics of its ow...

Rethinking the Gift in Diplomacy: Generative Relational Knowledge Emergence through Encounter

A gift asserts nothing that could be checked. It carries no proposition whose truth is at issue, and it discloses no procedure by which a content might be substantiated. It nonetheless does something that statements do poorly, and this paper asks what. The account offered is that...

From Ocean Dynamics to Plural Normative Orders Stratification, Localised Mixing, and the Governance of Interfaces: A Preliminary Discussion with Multilingual Democracy and International Organisations as Cases

A polity holding several orders of value contains parties whose claims are checkable on different time scales and by different observers, and arrangements of that kind are commonly assessed by measures computed on the whole. This paper takes the ocean as a worked case of a system...

From Ocean Dynamics to Plural Normative Orders Stratification, Localised Mixing, and the Governance of Interfaces: A Preliminary Discussion with Multilingual Democracy and International Organisations as Cases

A polity holding several orders of value contains parties whose claims are checkable on different time scales and by different observers, and arrangements of that kind are commonly assessed by measures computed on the whole. This paper takes the ocean as a worked case of a system...

Causal Sufficiency and Structural Vulnerability: Rethinking Responsibility in Generative Relational Systems — A Preliminary Position Paper on the Foundations of Structural Attribution

Two companion papers establish that in one class of injury the classical apparatus of causal attribution fails, and that the failure is of two kinds, one of resources and one of what a determinate contribution would require of any tribunal. Where causal sufficiency is unattainabl...