Foundational Reflection
What is infrastructure for?
A reflection on the question beneath our practical work. Infrastructure is usually justified by what it enables. We think it is better…
Research & Insights
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Foundational Reflection
Longer essays on the ideas beneath our practical work: what infrastructure is for, what we owe people who cannot object, and where our own reasoning is unresolved. Slower and more exploratory than our policy output, and explicitly provisional.
Foundational Reflection
On owing something to people who cannot object
Every account of obligation we have runs through consent, participation or reciprocity. None of them reaches the people most affected by infrastructure…