Latest Posts
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Citizen Erased (Part V) – Baby Boomer Divergence
The postwar generation broke the cycle of throughput and became owners. But they weren’t the norm—they were the exception, and the system is closing behind them.
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Citizen Erased (Part IV) – Immigration & the Maintenance of Throughput
Industrial cities didn’t just use immigration—they required it. London’s growth depended on a constant inflow of new labor to keep the urban throughput machine running.
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Citizen Erased (Part III) – The Urban Throughput Machine
Industrial cities like 19th-century London didn’t just grow—they were engineered to extract labor, circulate populations, and centralize wealth. The working class wasn’t rising—they were flowing.
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Citizen Erased (Part II) – Recordkeeping as Population Control
From parish ledgers to biometric IDs, recordkeeping has always served institutional power—not remembrance. It counts people not for who they are, but for what they’re for.
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Citizen Erased (Part I) – Whose Ancestors Get Remembered?
Genealogy shows how class shapes whose ancestors are remembered. From church records to digital ID, recordkeeping reflects systems of control.
