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Three Paradigms of Social Justice

Recently, when reading Fuyuki Kurasawa’s “The Work of Global Justice: Human Rights as Practices”, I was struck by a similarity in his “three paradigms of social justice” to Tom Gleason’s notion of the fourth autonomy.
Gleason’s three autonomies relate to the role of design in a post enlightenment era. He speaks of the three autonomies of [...]

Necessity as Dominance Language

This describes an interesting idea on the rhetorical use of necessity as a notion or term.
“institutions of government must correlate with the structure of the economy and the information system”…
“Must correlate”? Did you notice? They insisted that we must correlate with economics and technology.
“Necessity.” William Pitt said two centuries ago, “is the plea for every [...]