Articles in this category focus on human agency, moral responsibility, and processes of becoming. Drawing on ethical theory, social psychology, and lived experience, these pieces explore how individuals navigate constraint and possibility, make choices within systems, and cultivate informed, reflective agency.
Interpretive FrameThis essay examines the cultural ideal of the autonomous self—the belief that individuals are, or should be, fully self-directing and self-sufficient agents. Focusing on economic life and educational merit in the United States, it reveals how this ideal is learned through stories and expectations, how it legitimizes inequality while appearing fair, and how it […]
Interpretive FrameThis essay explores disruption not as a personal anomaly or moral failure, but as a patterned condition of human life shaped by history, culture, and systems. By examining how agency and ethics are reconfigured through disruption, it reframes becoming as an ongoing practice rather than a stable possession. Disruption is often experienced as rupture:
