THE SEVEN COMMANDMENTS OF COMPLICIT PRAXIS

A working creed for research and practice conducted from inside the systems under critique

Abstract

There is no clean position outside the systems this research studies, and pretending otherwise is denial. Complicit Praxis does not offer a way to escape entanglement with extractive technologies, extractive institutions, and an unstable AI collaborator. It offers a way to work honestly inside that entanglement, and to make the entanglement itself a source of knowledge rather than a shame to be managed. These seven commandments are not a checklist completed once and filed away. They are a standing discipline, returned to continuously, across the life of the research.

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