Twelve faculties. Twelve lenses on a single question: how did we build this, who does it serve, and what already works better?
The largest faculty by output. 16 papers totalling over 70,000 words. The centrepiece is Constructed Guilt (26,146 words) — a thesis documenting how guilt is produced across seven institutional sites, from pre-interrogation detention through media framing to jury deliberation. Additional research covers false confessions, credibility inversion, prosecutorial incentive structures, the specific vulnerability of neurodivergent populations, the use of conviction rates as performance metrics, and the structural impossibility of justice reform from within a system designed for conviction. Companion papers include They Don't Believe You, If You Complain, You Get Your Head Kicked In, and Prevention Over Punishment.
Five papers totalling over 45,000 words. The flagship study — 176 Years of Direct Democracy (9,003 words) — examines the Swiss cantonal system as the world's longest-running evidence base for citizen-led governance at national scale: highest GDP per capita, highest life satisfaction, lowest corruption in Europe. Additional research covers quadratic voting and preference-intensity matching (8,784 words), trust-first governance design (7,085 words), Dunbar-number social scaling and federation (3,784 words), and ViewSwap as a tool for epistemic humility at scale. Core question: if 178 years of evidence shows that people can govern themselves, why do we still elect representatives?
Seven papers spanning labour economics, wealth distribution, and cooperative enterprise. The $19 Trillion Solution (12,832 words) documents the paradox of Australia's $19.4 trillion in national wealth coexisting with 13.6% poverty, then models a sovereign wealth distribution framework. The Bullshit Jobs Phenomenon (16,659 words) quantifies Graeber's thesis with survey data: 37–40% of workers in advanced economies describe their own employment as pointless. The 22-Hour Work Week (9,488 words) documents the measurable divergence between productivity gains and working hours since 1973 — automation did the work, but the time went to shareholders. Cooperative Capitalism (13,789 words) analyses Mondragon's 70-year evidence base for distributed ownership.
Nine papers on the mammalian body in captivity. The largest single paper — Your Skin Is Eating (23,528 words) — documents dermal absorption of industrial chemicals. The Mammalian Body in Captivity (13,849 words) maps the neurobiology and physiology of civilisational decline. The Silent Feast (12,449 words) reverses the burden of proof in food safety. Inflammation, Depression, and the Gut-Brain Axis (8,967 words) links industrial diet to mental health through inflammatory pathways. The Silenced Foot (8,073 words) examines barefoot biomechanics and sensory deprivation. The Stolen Night (7,958 words) documents the industrial theft of circadian rhythm. The Kitava Islanders — 1,200 people with zero recorded acne, obesity, or cardiovascular disease — are the recurring reference population.
The founding faculty of Human Zoology. Eight papers applying zoo science welfare frameworks to human habitation. The Human Enclosure (9,663 words) applies the Mellor Five Domains Model to modern civilisation — unchanged, unmodified — and documents failure on four of five domains. The Caged Primate (9,223 words) quantifies the 93% indoor confinement rate. Play Deprivation (13,223 words) establishes play as a primary-process emotional system (Panksepp, 1998) essential to prefrontal cortex development, then documents its systematic removal from childhood. The Isolation Machine (7,294 words) examines screen-mediated social substitution and the destruction of physical community. Where Are the Monkey Bars? traces the removal of movement infrastructure from public space.
Seven papers on the psychology of compliance and the architecture of obedience. The Ideological Rorschach Test (10,861 words) documents how the same evidence produces opposite conclusions depending on the viewer's existing beliefs — and what this means for institutional decision-making. Two Monkey Theory (8,936 words) synthesises the Brosnan-de Waal capuchin fairness experiments with institutional analysis to explain why numerical majorities accept arrangements that demonstrably harm them. Death and Terror Management examines Ernest Becker's thesis that mortality salience drives institutional allegiance. The Obedience Factory traces the Prussian education model from 1806 to the present day. The Bystander Effect, learned helplessness, and neuroimaging under duress complete the faculty's investigation of why people comply with systems they know are broken.
Two papers, but the evidence is definitive. The Dealer Doesn't Check ID (8,142 words) examines drug criminalisation as body violation, documents the racial origins of prohibition (Anslinger, 1930; Nixon/Ehrlichman, 1971), and presents the case for pharmacies over car parks. The Drug War in Australia (2,884 words) follows the money: who pays, who profits, who goes to prison. The reference case is Portugal: decriminalisation in 2001, 80% reduction in overdose deaths, 95% reduction in HIV among drug users. The reference experiment is Rat Park (Alexander, 1978): addiction as a function of enclosure quality, not chemical properties. Connection, not criminalisation. The evidence is a quarter-century old.
Tied with Justice as the largest faculty: 16 papers on who owns the infrastructure and what it means when the answer is "five companies." Sovereign AI (10,227 words) argues that the concentration of AI capability in OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, Meta, and Apple is the most dangerous monopoly in human history. Platform Sovereignty documents the privatisation of human identity. Why Google, Apple, Meta, GitHub, and Microsoft Get to Decide If You Exist examines platform dependency. Additional papers cover mesh networking, cryptographic identity, deterministic addressing, the uncensorable library, protocol-level autonomy, and power mesh architecture. Core thesis: you are the infrastructure. No one owns the protocol.
Three papers documenting community-based alternatives to institutional emergency response. The reference case is Hatzolah: a volunteer paramedicine service achieving sub-3-minute response times in communities where ambulances take 14 minutes. Surf lifesaving: a volunteer ocean rescue system that has saved over 700,000 lives in Australia. CAHOOTS (Eugene, Oregon): 24,000 calls per year handled by mental health crisis teams without police, with a 0.01% rate requiring police backup. Civic Proximity Response presents a unified thesis on community-first emergency infrastructure. Housing First documents the evidence for housing as public health infrastructure rather than commodity.
Five papers on the methodology of converting evidence into architecture. Sanctuary Design: A Zoological Framework for Human Systems (11,711 words) is the academic companion to The Zookeeper — the formal specification for what a human sanctuary would look like if designed by someone who understood the species. Grief-to-Design documents a methodology for converting personal experience of system failure into rigorous design specifications for replacement systems. The Quiet Build examines how functional alternatives are constructed without institutional permission. The Rebel Had No Google (3,297 words) revisits Camus's philosophical intuitions with 21st-century evidence. 14 design goals traced from documented loss to system architecture. Prevention-first requirements derived from measured failure modes.
Seven papers and 10 reproducible studies with downloadable datasets. The foundational finding: human accuracy at detecting deception is 54% (Bond & DePaulo, 2006, meta-analysis of 206 studies). A coin flip is 50%. The Signal Inversion programme extends this finding into institutional settings and demonstrates that the error is not random — it is systematic. Institutions reward the markers of deception (confidence, narrative coherence, emotional control) and penalise the markers of honesty (hesitation, contradiction, emotional expression). The signal is not merely missed. It is inverted. Every study includes its full dataset and executable analysis code. Credibility Under Scrutiny (7,655 words) is the programme's anchor paper.
Two papers on cryptographic identity and self-sovereign proof. The Immutable Chain examines what identity means when it is generated deterministically from inputs you control rather than issued by an institution that can revoke it. Same inputs, same address, everywhere, forever. Sybil Resistance Through Physical Co-Presence addresses the fundamental challenge of decentralised identity: proving you are a unique human without submitting to institutional verification. These papers sit at the intersection of the Technology and Justice faculties — examining what "proof" means when the institution that issued your identity is the same institution that can erase it.
The faculty structure exists for navigation, not for silos. At a conventional university, these would be twelve departments that rarely speak to each other. At the University of OMXUS, they are twelve angles on a single problem.
The justice system cannot be understood without understanding the economics that fund it. Health cannot be understood without understanding the enclosure conditions that produce disease. Education cannot be understood without understanding the psychology of obedience it was designed to instil. Technology cannot be understood without understanding the sovereignty it concentrates or distributes. Drug policy cannot be understood without understanding the racial economics that produced it.
Every paper in the University's collection crosses at least two faculty boundaries. Most cross three or four. This is not a bug. This is the founding insight: the pathologies of human civilisation are not isolated. They are interconnected. They share architects. They share incentive structures. They share beneficiaries. Understanding any one of them means understanding all of them.
"A zoologist studying a captive animal does not have separate departments for the cage, the diet, the social group, and the enrichment. They study the whole enclosure. The twelve faculties are twelve measurement instruments trained on a single organism in a single cage. The organism is us. The cage is civilisation." The Zookeeper, Introduction
