Close-up photograph of pale white rhizome roots weaving horizontally through dark soil beneath green succulent stems. The tangled, non-hierarchical root network fills the frame. Overlaid text reads: βField Note 4.2βAn Ontology of Equality: Why Authority Needs Care; and Care, Authority,β with the author name βK. L. Hommeβ and the website βnoshortcutstonow.substack.com.β
Not all authority is domination. Some is care.
This Field Note asks a harder question than βWho has power?β
It asks: What kind of authority deserves consent?
π§ Audio here:
noshortcutstonow.substack.com/p/filed-note...
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