Nº 00Opener
Orphaned Design
On regulations that outlived their rationale
On regulations that outlived their rationale — and the chain of seven links that guards a design against orphanhood.
Grammar · the error of sequence
Orphaned Design
On regulations that outlived their rationale
A regulation can outlive its rationale: the form stays standing, safeguarded and maintained, while no one any longer commands the room for judgement around it. That is an orphaned design. This series describes the seven links under which that room for judgement arises — three reserves, two working forms, two forces — and the seven countable substitutes that imitate their shape. Newcomers should begin at Nº 00. The series sits under the pillar Grammar.
§Orphaned Design
The chain, from opener to coda
Nº 01Reserve
Nº 02Reserve
Nº 03Reserve
Nº 04Working form
Room for Loss
On attempts that fail and what they leave behind
On attempts that fail and what they leave behind — grammar prised loose in the fight over a proposal.
Nº 05Working form
Practice Regime
On rationale that stays in use
On rationale that stays in use, instead of disappearing into the archive.
Nº 06Force
Nº 07Force
Counterplay
On the body that enforces the rationale
On the body that enforces the rationale — expert enough, with a price on being ignored.
CodaCoda
The Empty Law
On frameworks that place the trade-off elsewhere
On frameworks that place the trade-off elsewhere — the empty law as the ground form beneath bundling, transfer and obligation.