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The Objections That Hold Up
3 articles

Our registry started too late
"You sell traceability and you cannot prove who writes your articles." The objection is valid, and what it reveals is worse than what it targets.

The Gaze You Can’t Return
“It’s surveillance.” With Foucault and the panopticon: the three properties of a surveillance device — which ones a registry can reverse, and which it never can.

What Our Registry Will Never Be Able to Write
“You can’t put everything on a form”: with James C. Scott, mètis, and the Prussian forest — what a registry can attest to, and what it must never grade.