emsenn

Research and analysis of relationality

My name is emsenn, and I study relating as the fundamental force of existence. I am an independent researcher, coming to the study from lived experience as a Lakota land steward.

We are living through the breakdown of the ecology and society we have inherited, and old frameworks of sovereignty, individuality, and possession no longer explain how things actually function.

My work develops relationality as an alternative. Grounded in Lakota epistemologies, relationality is a way of understanding life, governance, and history.

This website is a research vault: an organized collection of notes, essays, formal specifications, and curricula, provided as a resource for the common good.

My Letters to the Web are probably the most interesting part of this website for readers who haven't been here before. Most of the other content exists to explore the concepts I touch on there in greater detail.

My given name is Morgan Sennhauser, but I go by emsenn. My preferred honorific prefix is M. I use they, them, theirs, as my pronouns. I am a queer. I am of the Itazipcho (Sans Arc of the Lakota Sioux). I reside in North Shore of Gitchigumee, Minnesota, United States of America, the homeland of the Ojibwe, who never ceded sovereignty. My main online presence is at https://emsenn.net. My email is emsenn@emsenn.net.