How the present is produced through struggles over meaning, power, and material reorganisation.

An analysis of debates on collective intentionality, social facts, and structure-agency relations to hypothesise how paradox operates within social systems.

How conceptual frameworks determine what counts as change, what actions follow, and which futures gain legitimacy.

Ferguson, Escobar, Jasanoff, and Bourdieu on how Progress is performed and legitimacy sustained amid structural contradiction.

Economic dynamics as active expressions of evolving social values in times of transition.