Episode 11: 2026 - The Year Ahead
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A New Year’s conversation exploring domination, free existence, law, language, and technology—connecting deep history to urgent questions shaping 2026.
Introduction
DOMINATION CHRONICLES: 2026 — THE YEAR AHEAD
Our New Year's Day conversation presents a variety of topics we intend to discuss in the months ahead in a continuing exploration of Free Existence and Domination. We will invite guests to join us in some of these episodes.
The focus throughout—as always in Domination Chronicles—is on words and meanings, connecting dots in overlapping and entangled histories, opening ways to step outside conventional approaches, penetrating institutional and narrative façades, always in an effort to understand Life.
We emphasize the necessity of deep, wide, and close reading of all documents—legal and other—with an aim to articulate manifestations of "free existence" and "domination".
Our topics will include some of the most recent technologies—like so-called "artificial intelligence"—and some of the longest-running narratives—like "sympathy" and "apology" for dominations.
Selected legal cases and professional publications will also come under our scrutiny.
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Resources
Karl Llewellyn, The Bramble Bush https://archive.org/details/bramblebushonour0000llew_p2t5
and The Cheyenne Way https://archive.org/details/cheyennewayconfl0000llew
Klaus Mueller, Politics of Communication https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Politics_of_Communication/pRh4QgAACAAJ?hl=en
Tao Te Ching [Witter Bynner trans.] https://www.scribd.com/document/7544228/Tao-Te-Ching-W-Bynner
"A Quantum View of 'Free Existence' as Entangled Indeterminacy" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGCWO0aRj0c&t=9s
"Pulp Legal Fiction: The Bizarre Case Of Tee-hit-ton v. US" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3QHOZIXQas&t=484s
United States v. Consolidated Wounded Knee Cases (1975) https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/389/235/1591640/
Citation
Steve Newcomb and Peter d’Errico, "2026 - The Year Ahead," Domination Chronicles (Podcast), 2026-01-23, https://dominationchronicles.com/episodes/e011-2026-the-year-ahead/.
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Peter d’Errico graduated from Yale Law School in 1968. He was an attorney at Dinébe’iiná Náhiiłna be Agha’diit’ahii, Navajo Legal Services, in Shiprock, 1968-1970.
Steven T. Newcomb (Shawnee/Lenape) has been researching the history of U.S. federal Indian law and policy for four decades.
