Arkemedics

Some of the most consequential decisions an institution makes happen before anyone notices a decision is being made. They happen in the act of describing the situation naming what counts as normal, what counts as "doing nothing," what doesn't need a reason. By the time the argument starts, those decisions have already decided which side has to defend its position.

This channel names them. Each episode picks one structural move one that institutions, ideologies, and your own habits of mind make routinely, without catching themselves at it and gives it a name precise enough to argue about.

The corpus is at arkemedics.com open-access, ongoing. Start with Episode 1: Before the Argument Starts.