Research and analysis of relationality
My name is emsenn, and I study relating as the fundamental force of existence. I am an independent researcher, coming to the study from lived experience as a Lakota land steward. (See About emsenn)
We are living through the breakdown of the ecology and society we have inherited, and old frameworks of sovereignty, individuality, and possession no longer explain how things actually function.
My work develops relationality as an alternative. Grounded in Lakota epistemologies, relationality is a way of understanding life, governance, and history. (See Introducing Relational Dynamics)
This website is a research vault: an organized collection of notes, essays, formal specifications, and curricula, provided as a resource for the common good.
Where to start
- Introducing Relational Dynamics — an accessible introduction to the central project
- The Derivation — the canonical 18-step derivation from the impossibility of nothing
- About emsenn — who I am and what this project is
Browse by area
- Relationality — the central research project: derivation, formal structures, concepts, and terms
- Mathematics — order theory, Heyting algebras, closure operators, and the formal structures that emerge from the derivation
- Philosophy — ontology, epistemology, and the philosophical grounding of the framework
- Sociology — critical theory, affect, governance, and analysis of how social structures hold together
- Education — pedagogy, learning theory, and curriculum design
- Technology — specifications, digital infrastructure, and the tools that support this research
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- Letters to the Web — longer essays addressing public topics
- Babbles — short, unplanned, generally unedited written thoughts
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