Discipline
/ PSID
Post-Imperial Systems Intervention & Design (PSID) is an emerging discipline. It is concerned with the design, intervention, and stewardship of socio-technical systems after and against imperial and techno-imperial domination.
The discipline integrates critical theory, systems thinking, political economy, and applied design: we diagnose how power operates inside institutions and organizations, then design interventions that reform, redesign, or replace the structures that reproduce domination.
The point is not symbolic resistance. The work is durable counter-infrastructure, systems that restore and extend human agency, institutionalize care, and instantiate collective coordynamics, so domination is not structurally reproduced through infrastructure.
Core commitments
Under PSID, every system we design, build, and sustain is held to four structural commitments:
Agency
Systems must restore and extend people's ability to understand, contest, and exit the conditions that govern them.
Care
Care must be institutionalized, encoded into governance, incentives, and capital flows as a structural obligation, not a stated value.
Coordination
Systems must instantiate collective coordynamics, enabling legitimate, efficient coordination toward viable shared aims.
Non-Domination
Systems must resist the structural reproduction of domination, extraction, and capture, especially under scale, capital pressure, and institutional force.