“Qualification” is a poetic exegesis which proposes to reclaim the act of writing for its own art and away from the nullifying structures of the academic text. It comprises of a series of writings which have engaged with their context, in particular the administration that concedes so much of the labour of the contemporary artist, a concession common to privilege at the expense of both those profoundly underpaid workers responsible for the material wealth of “the west” as well as to the ultimate alienation of those forced to enfranchise themselves through work with no productive output. The writings are tangential, leaping from histories and philosophies to personal histories, examining the cumulative impact of data in the face of the unprecedented access to human knowledge, which nevertheless fails in the face of human understanding. It rejects the notion of a progressive human artistic spirit, arguing against a sense of perfectibility in the arts, while arguing for a greater artistic engagement with the potential for technology to localise and transform labour for the betterment of all.