BOOKS
Books
Books on correction, agency, artificial authority, time, institutional judgment, theology, beauty, inheritance, and formation.
Some are complete public editions; others are complete private manuscripts or developing books. The distinctions stay visible so a reader can understand what is available without mistaking private work for published text.
READ IN FULL
Complete books available on this site.
Each has a complete reading sequence and linked table of contents.
Bibliographic note. EDITION · 01–07 is a shelf/display sequence for the seven complete public books, not a canonical semantic edition identifier. Status labels describe access, editorial maturity, and completeness; they do not imply commercial publication, acquisition, representation, peer review, or institutional endorsement.
COMPLETE PUBLIC BOOK · CORRIGIBILITY
The Clear Mind
A theory of corrigibility across mind, institution, and artificial voice: whether contrary evidence can enter, alter state, propagate, and persist into what happens next.
COMPLETE PUBLIC BOOK · HUMAN AGENCY
Someone at Your Back
The Hidden Social Architecture of Courage. A research-driven book on how support, recoverability, self-efficacy, and internalized judgment shape action under uncertainty.
COMPLETE PUBLIC DEVELOPMENTAL READING EDITION · USE & PERSONHOOD
The Good Life after Use
How serviceability becomes confused with goodness—and how work, friendship, Sabbath, attention, institutions, and public truth change when persons can be received before they are required.
COMPLETE PUBLIC WEB EDITION · INSTITUTIONAL RECEPTION
Received in Reduced Form
How institutions thin lived complexity into administratively useful categories, records, and verdicts—and what that reduction does to personhood and legitimate rule.
COMPLETE PUBLIC WEB EDITION · PLAUSIBILITY & POWER
The Manufacture of Obviousness
How institutions make one interpretation feel like reality itself while rival interpretations become unserious before argument is allowed to begin.
COMPLETE PUBLIC WEB EDITION · MULTIPLICITY & BELONGING
Do Not Flatten Me
Multiplicity, Belonging, and the Psychology of the Unfinalized Self. A theory of plural identity, relational knowledge, bounded judgment, belonging, and the ethical difference between interpreting a person and finishing one.
COMPLETE PUBLIC WEB EDITION · GIFT, GRACE & PERSONHOOD
After the Gift
The Receiver, the Source, and the Politics of Grace. A theological and philosophical book about post-gift life: the standing of the person who receives, the finitude of the person who gives, and the moral form of help after something good has arrived.
THE LIBRARY
Eight lines of inquiry.
The books are arranged by the questions they pursue rather than by publication chronology.
01 · CORRECTION & EXPERIMENT
What makes correction usable—and error survivable?
COMPLETE PUBLIC BOOK
The Clear Mind
Whether contrary evidence can actually change a mind or system and remain changed after the moment of correction.
BOOK IN DEVELOPMENT
The Failure Budget
Who can afford to be wrong, how punishment gradients narrow experimentation, and what conditions make disciplined public error survivable.
Research contribution: Error Metabolizability →
02 · AGENCY & RELATION
How can relation enlarge agency without becoming sovereign over the person it helps form?
COMPLETE PUBLIC BOOK
Someone at Your Back
Relationally scaffolded courage and the movement from borrowed backing toward portable self-trust without pretending dependence can be abolished.
COMPLETE PUBLIC WEB EDITION · MULTIPLICITY & BELONGING
Do Not Flatten Me
Plural identity, relational knowledge, bounded judgment, belonging, and the ethics of preserving a person’s revisability without dissolving responsibility.
03 · ARTIFICIAL VOICE & AUTHORITY
What office does a synthetic voice perform toward a person over time?
COMPLETE PRIVATE MANUSCRIPT
Made Voices
AI, Aelred, and the Authority of Synthetic Interlocutors. Synthetic interlocution across time: voice, distributed authorship, memory, expertise, pastoral power, institutional address, refusal, and conduct.
The manuscript remains private; the public page presents the argument and connected work.
04 · USE, TIME & THE CONDITIONS OF LIVING
What remains of a life when usefulness, urgency, and managed time stop supplying its terms?
COMPLETE PUBLIC DEVELOPMENTAL READING EDITION
The Good Life after Use
Pleasure, dignity, usefulness, Sabbath, friendship, and goods that do not have to prove their worth by becoming productive first.
WORKING BOOK
The Made Hour
Interval, protected unfinishedness, gathering, play, and shared hours not immediately converted into output.
PRIVATE MANUSCRIPT
Timecraft
Vividness as self-governance: preserving excellence, structure, and meaningful time without requiring coercive extraction from the self.
PRIVATE MANUSCRIPT
The Seizure of Tempo
Temporal power: the capture of latency, ripening, darkness, and the intervals through which a person becomes inhabitable to themselves.
PRIVATE MANUSCRIPT
The Failed Rite
Failed reincorporation: the task ends but the person remains under it because modern life has weakened the rites that return people from demand to ordinary life.
05 · EVALUATION, FORM & INSTITUTIONAL RECEPTION
What happens when a person has to become legible to a room that may not be capable of receiving them?
PRIVATE MANUSCRIPT
Bad Evaluation
Evaluator quality: recognition, exemplary capture, witness, exposure, erasure, and whether the evaluator is good enough for what it demands to see.
PRIVATE BOOK MANUSCRIPT
The Cost of Form
Why crossing from possibility into visible, judgeable form can become disproportionately expensive in bodily, social, moral, and symbolic terms.
COMPLETE PUBLIC WEB EDITION
Received in Reduced Form
How institutions receive people only after thinning lived complexity into administratively useful categories, records, and verdicts.
COMPLETE PUBLIC WEB EDITION
The Manufacture of Obviousness
How one interpretation becomes plausible, neutral, or ridiculous before the argument is formally allowed to begin.
06 · THEOLOGY, ENCHANTMENT & NON-FINALITY
Can ultimacy, resurrection, gift, and enchantment be thought without restoring domination?
PRIVATE MANUSCRIPT
Obligation Without Sovereignty
God, conscience, refusal, memory, Christ, church, Sabbath, resurrection, gift, and bounded claim outside the grammar of total rule.
Public companion essay: The Interpreter Beside the Throne: Daniel, Joseph, and the Ethics of Uncaptured Intelligence.
PRIVATE MANUSCRIPT
The Missing Body
Holy Saturday and bodily non-abandonment: violated flesh, disappearance, resurrection, and the politics of the dead.
COMPLETE PUBLIC WEB EDITION
After the Gift
The receiver, the source, and the politics of grace: what happens to standing, finitude, justice, gratitude, forgiveness, hospitality, and public provision after something good has been given.
PRIVATE MANUSCRIPT
The Corrected Page
Accountable enchantment after correction: witchcraft, invented antiquity, residual enchantment, feminist transformation, ritual, mediation, and truthfulness after innocence.
07 · BEAUTY & PUBLIC LIFE
What would a world look like if radiance were not treated as evidence of shallowness?
PRIVATE MANUSCRIPT
The Desirable World
How beauty, wit, style, hospitality, brilliance, and collective brightness might be received without being punished, trivialized, or forced to disguise themselves as seriousness.
08 · INHERITANCE, FORMATION & MEMOIR
A life can supply material to different books without making them the same book.
These manuscripts share scenes and people but organize them around different inquiries.
PROTECTED PRIVATE MANUSCRIPT
Counter-Inheritance
A documentary family history concerned with blood, legal-material custody, care, and memory.
PRIVATE LITERARY MANUSCRIPT
A Republic of Small Lights
A phenomenology of local, non-redemptive forms—thresholds, landscapes, meals, teachers, songs, animal nearness—that preserve dimension under volatile human weather without pretending to repair the harm.
PRIVATE MEMOIR MANUSCRIPT
Learning to Disappear
A media-and-development memoir about television, rural childhood, queer formation, bodily visibility, vigilance, and writing as a form that can arrange truth without surrendering it to capture.
READING STATES
A book can require several independent state dimensions.
Status labels should answer separate questions about access, editorial maturity, completeness, and lifecycle rather than collapsing them into one overloaded publication label.
ACCESS STATE
Public · Private · Protected
EDITORIAL MATURITY
Developmental · Published · Archived · Retired
COMPLETENESS
Fragment · Partial · Complete · Complete with open revision
LIFECYCLE
Current · Superseded · Deprecated · Withdrawn
WORKED EXAMPLE · THE GOOD LIFE AFTER USE
Access: public
Editorial maturity: developmental
Completeness: complete
Lifecycle: current
Complete public developmental reading edition is coherent because these dimensions answer different questions.
Public does not mean commercially published. Complete does not mean beyond editorial revision. Developmental does not mean incomplete. Current does not erase preserved archival sources. Bibliographic state does not receive an E0–E6 evidence class.
Governance rule: show only values established for a given Work. Unknown dimensions remain unasserted rather than inferred.
RELATED WORK
Ideas move between books, research, and literary work.
The sections remain separate so a complete book, a research contribution, and a literary essay can each be read for what it is.