My work begins where socio-technical systems self-disintegrate below their surfaces and syntaxes. Their paradoxa and contradictions cannot be resolved. To retrace their forms and patterns makes their fragile routines of legitimization explicit and malleable. I create conceptual-narrative entities: sincere propositions doubling as conceptual fictions. These produce public formats—installations, curricula, publications, performances, organizations. Ambivalence is experience, method and material for playful incisive encounters with artifacts of the ultra-contemporary.