Research & Writing
The thinking behind the building.
Everything here comes from the Collusion Labs vault — the same infrastructure we're building for practitioners. Theory and practice evolving together.
Research
History, theory, and the intellectual foundations behind the platform.
The Structure Is the Extraction
What 954 years of 'revolutionary' finance teaches about who owns the work
Respectful Machines in Deliberative Commons
Security, Marketplace, and Cooperative Design for Reality-Grounded Inference
Historical Lessons
What institutional history teaches about who owns the work
Collusion Labs
What if competitors became collaborators—not through coercion, but through infrastructure that makes cooperation cheaper than competition? The Challenge Cooperatives struggle to scale. Traditional ...
StoryBox
How do you build a platform where stories evolve through structured dialogue rather than algorithmic feeds? The Challenge Centralized platforms optimize for engagement, not meaning. Stories get fla...
A Semiotic Future for North American Archives
Decolonization, decentralization, and digitization—a Peircean framework for transforming archival practice. Abstract This research intertwines Peircean pragmaticism, North American Indigenous tradi...
Slow Technologies for Human Limits
Indigenous mobility, decentralized autonomous organizations, and knowledge-sharing meta-data registries. Abstract This article focuses on emerging decentralized recordkeeping technologies that theo...
Pragmatism and Bau Haus
Expanding the functionalist horizon through Peirce's concept of musement. Introduction The Bauhaus movement and American pragmatism share a deep-rooted commitment to bridging theory and practice, a...
Charitable Accountability
Assuming good faith while still holding the line
What the Internet Forgot About Being Human
Why digital commons fail—and what functioning communities have always known
Witness-Based Validation
How testimony replaces metrics in building trust
Ostrom's Design Principles for Digital Commons
Eight principles that predict commons success—and how we're implementing them
Place-Based Discovery
Why your neighbors should come first