Episode 1: Moral Elasticity — A Governing Condition

This lecture introduces moral elasticity as a framework for understanding how institutions absorb harm without structural rupture.Rather than focusing on isolated acts of misconduct, it examines how contradiction is managed, diffused, and normalized within systems that claim neutrality and legitimacy.Moral elasticity offers a diagnostic lens for recognizing how repeated violations of professed values fail to destabilize institutional power — and why exposure alone rarely produces accountability.. Get full access to Black Signal. at bobbiela.substack.com/subscribe