CIVICVS Context Index

Context Dossiers

Document: CFD-CTX-2015-2024-HARVARD-DEI-POLICY
Definition: Environments of processes and records (policies, funding, governance, law) that frame civic disputes.
Significance: Provides structured context for contested civic debates, grounded in immutable processes (admissions, budgets, filings).
Analyst Rule: Document the environment, not just the event.
Document: CFD-CTX-2025-POST-HUMANE-SOCIETY
Definition: Emergence and corrosion of the post-humane society, where human-centered institutions devolve into extractive complexes.
Significance: Establishes diagnostic category for institutional corrosion, linking early manifestations to historical inevitabilities.
Analyst Rule: Preserve both the early indicators (health, nonprofits, education) and the trajectory toward systemic corrosion.
Document: CFD-CTX-2025-LEGAL-SELF-PROTECTION
Definition: Emergence of legal self-protection markets in the U.S. (property, identity, self-defense) as civic protections corrode.
Significance: Establishes diagnostic category for survival in the post-humane society.
Analyst Rule: Distinguish between autonomy-reinforcing vs. dependency-reinforcing protections.