The morality code is not a code of morals. It is a code of resolution. A stratified society ranks types, not persons. Its categories are the units of advantage, and the units of advantage must be reproduced. Reproduction runs through desire, and desire is where the category is either confirmed or dissolved. The morality code…
WORKER-OWNED ENTERPRISE, SUPRANATIONAL CORPORATE FORMS, AND THE REMOTE WORK PATHWAY TO RESIDENCE Classification: Socio-Legal Blog Post | Series: Total Institutional Adsorption | Jurisdictions: EU Member States, with Mondragon and Genossenschaften as Templates INTRODUCTION The previous post diagnosed the blind spot of the immigration system: the foreign working spouse of a citizen, treated as a dependent…
DEPENDENT STATUS, PROFESSIONAL DISPLACEMENT, AND THE ASSUMPTION OF ADULT INCAPACITY Classification: Socio-Legal Blog Post | Series: Total Institutional Adsorption | Jurisdictions: United States, United Kingdom, Canada, EU INTRODUCTION The previous posts in this series examined the employer-sponsored visa as a choke point, the portable visa as anti-capture technology, and the startup city as the spatial…
STREAMLINED PATHWAYS, FLEXIBLE ARRANGEMENTS, AND SUPPORT ZONES FOR INTERNATIONAL FAMILIES IN EUROPE Classification: Socio-Legal Blog Post | Series: Total Institutional Adsorption | Jurisdictions: EU Member States, with Speculative Urban Models INTRODUCTION The previous post established the portable visa as anti-capture technology: a legal design that decouples the right to remain from the continuation of a…
HOW FEMINISM WAS USURPED, REPRODUCTION WAS CAPTURED, AND THE INSTITUTION BECAME AN ADVERSARIAL PLAYER IN THE MATING MARKET Classification: Socio-Legal Blog Post | Series: Total Institutional Adsorption | Jurisdictions: Anglo-American Core, with EU/French Counterpoint INTRODUCTION The previous diagnostic report established the genealogy of Total Institutional Adsorption: Ford’s Sociological Department (1914), the secularized risk-management turn of…