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The Farming Debate Isn’t Too Complex. It’s Badly Described.
Latour and Spinoza: agricultural complexity isn’t excess chatter around a simple object — it’s an outdated apparatus of description. What actually changed is the cost of the singular.
What Our Registry Will Never Be Able to Write
“You can’t put everything on a form”: with James C. Scott, mètis, and the Prussian forest — what a registry can attest to, and what it must never grade.
What Modernization Left Out
A century multiplied yields and divided description. What changed is not morality but cost: green it, or bring it back in.
What the Price Doesn’t Say
Hayek (1945): price circulates knowledge that no one holds. But it says nothing about quality or path: nothing is missing from the price — what is missing is a price.
Who Keeps the Register?
Power does not reside in knowledge but in the place where inscriptions converge. The real question is not “do we need a register”, but who audits it.
No One Will Read the Label
Herbert Simon, bounded rationality: four seconds facing thirty options. The label is a rational shortcut — but it still has to be decompressible.
The Batch Number Is a Pineal Gland
Descartes separated thought and extension, then glued them back together with the pineal gland. Declarative traceability does the same thing with the batch number.
Everything Was Fine the Day Before
Taleb’s turkey, the optimization that hides its trade-off, the aviation industry that learns: why an opaque chain breaks silently, then all at once.
A Proof Is Not a Fact. It Is a Path.
What makes a proof is neither sincerity nor precision, but continuity: a chain of transformations in which every link remains reversible.
A Tonne Is Not a Tonne
Origin or path? From the local-versus-commodity duel to the carbon credit: why a tonne is worth what its place is worth, and what an index changes about a credit.
The Market for Lemons: What Akerlof Tells Us About Traceability
George Akerlof’s (Nobel laureate 1970) “market for lemons” theory explains why, absent proof, a product’s invisible quality ends up priced at the market average — and how traceability answers that.
The Stamp and the Thing
Ceremony or substance: with Spinoza, why a declaration of conformity is a rite — and how proof finally shows what the standard truly wants.