Emotion Plumbing

Courts, Platforms, and Machines for Managing Outrage

Treating institutions as affective filters and amplifiers: mapping how designs mute certain emotions (vengeance, favoritism) and amplify others (civic pride, engagement, fear), and what that implies for system health.

"The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying 'This is mine', and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society."

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau