These research notes document forty years of embedded observation inside British institutions at moments of transformation — NAAFI contracting at the end of the Cold War, the cooperative internet becoming corporate infrastructure, a Victorian telecommunications empire dismantling itself through financial engineering, a housing association absorbing the logic it was built to resist. Each note is reconstructed from personal testimony: what it felt like to be inside the machine while the machine was changing. Taken together they constitute the biographical archaeology underlying the Liminal Mind practice — the sequence of institutional encounters that produced the artist now making work about memory, extraction, and what remains when organisations created with genuine social purpose have moved on.
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Research Archive & Papers
Embedded Research
- The Education of an Eye
- Three Offers in Leytonstone
- Memory, Cooperative Life, and the Olympic Erasure of Clays Lane
- The Comfort of Empire: NAAFI, Post-Imperial Contraction, and the Photography of Institutional Endings
- The Last Cable: Cable and Wireless, Institutional Collapse, and the Salesroom at the End of Empire
- The Trustworthy Face
- Whitfield Street to Brick Lane
Essays
- Quantum Suppression and the Collapse of the JCPOA
- The Edwardian Era: Imperial Pomp and Portside Reality — Cardiff, Butetown, and the World the Docks Made
- The Fog of the Machine
- When Precision Becomes the Problem
- Britain’s Systemic Hybridisation
- The Architecture of Incorporation
- Gandhi and the Quantum Nature of the Unseen Power
- Strata of the Shore: Dylan Thomas, Devonian Geology, and the Physics of Deep Time
- The Architecture of Erasure: How Ordinary Systems Manufacture Extraordinary Cruelty
- The Priest in Superposition: R.S. Thomas and the Quantum Nature of Sacred Waiting
- From Acid Rain to New Dawn
- Grey Knowledge
All documents are working drafts — not for citation without permission. © Chris George / Liminal Mind 2026.
Embedded Research
