Essays & Commentary

Broader Applications and Perspectives

While the main pillars focus on integrated archaeological, theoretical, and engineering work, human inquiry doesn’t always fit neat categories. This section contains explorations that apply the same rigorous thinking to historical, political, and cultural questions.

Historical Analysis – Documentary research, biographical studies, and cultural history that trace how ideas evolve and impact society.

Policy Commentary – Analysis of contemporary policy issues through the lens of material constraints, motion patterns, and long-term thinking informed by archaeological time scales.

Local History – Place-based research connecting specific locations to broader patterns of human settlement, technology adoption, and environmental change.

Political Analysis – Examination of political systems and decisions with attention to material foundations rather than purely ideological framings.

These essays may not directly reference archaeological signal processing or robotic engineering, but they share the same foundational commitment: understanding requires attending to material reality, motion patterns, and the actual constraints under which systems operate.

Connections:

• Applies principles from → Foundation to diverse topics.

Articles

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  The War on Progress: How Today’s Elite Counter-Attack Echoes 1914November 19, 2025
  What if the unrest and chaos in politics right now is quite simply explained by looking at the history of the struggle between elites and workers in western societies. The survival of feudal elites and… Read more: The War on Progress: How Today’s Elite Counter-Attack Echoes 1914
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  Bulmer Hobson: The Revolutionary Who Survived to Imagine a Different IrelandNovember 17, 2025
  Dylan Foley Words:19054 Time to read:50 minutes Introduction On Good Friday 1916, Bulmer Hobson found himself in an absurd and bitter predicament. His own comrades in the Irish Republican Brotherhood—men he had recruited, trained, and… Read more: Bulmer Hobson: The Revolutionary Who Survived to Imagine a Different Ireland
• The Democratic Deficit: Ireland’s Invisible Political CeilingNovember 5, 2025
  A data-driven analysis of elected positions and democratic participation. Dylan Foley [[Written with Claude AI : Figures may be wonky but you get the idea, just dont quote this in your thesis]] 
The Shock Factor… Read more: The Democratic Deficit: Ireland’s Invisible Political Ceiling
• John Butler Yeats; Anarchism & Art in the Making of Modern IrelandJune 22, 2025
  Contents Ireland in 1839 Part I: Making of a Radical “To thine own self be true” Trinity and the Law Part II: Ireland in Crisis Not So Revolutionary Ireland Young Ireland’s Alternative The Empire Strikes… Read more: John Butler Yeats; Anarchism & Art in the Making of Modern Ireland
• James Connolly, Anarchist Syndicalism and the Sligo Dock StrikeJuly 14, 2022
  James Connolly and the importance of Anarchist Syndicalism in the Irish revolutionary period.

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