Second APRA Foundation Berlin Multi-Disciplinary Fellow rejects funding and cancels awarded project. Piper reads Stellungnahme zu dem Beschluß des Landesgerichts Berlin aloud at second lawsuit court hearing; judge agrees not to apply statutes protecting work fraud. Wins College Art Association 2012 Artist Award for a Distinguished Body of Work, for having "since the late 1960s … profoundly influenced the language and form of Conceptual art." Establishes the APRA Foundation Berlin Graduate Student Teaching Scholarship in Philosophy at the University of Keele, UK. Resolves to stop doing Kapotasana, Mukta Hasta Shirshana to protect neck vertebrae. Confronts habituation to Kapotasana, Mukta Hasta Shirshana, inability to stop doing them absentmindedly. Delivers three lectures, The Connection between Truth and Goodness: Explorations in Kant's Metaethics to the Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe. Discovers Falco. Delivers "On the Very Idea of Artistic Research" to the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art at Oxford University at the Art as a Mode of Inquiry conference. Reopens Archive. Article, "Kant's Two Solutions to the Free Rider Problem," published in The Kant Yearbook 4/2012: Kant and Contemporary Moral Philosophy. At third lawsuit hearing, interrogates plaintiff; court settles case favorably to APRA. Presents Rationality and the Structure of the Self, Volume II: A Kantian Conception, "Chapter III. The Concept of a Genuine Preference" at Workshop, Kant und Hegel über Logik und Ontologie, University of Potsdam. Discovers Max Raabe. For 64th birthday, decides to retire from being black. Creates Thwarted Projects, Dashed Hopes, A Moment of Embarrassment (2012) and announces new racial and nationality designations at website. Resumes studying Sanskrit in earnest. Learns Yoga Sutra I.1-12 by heart. Publishes "Kant's Self-Legislation Procedure Reconsidered" in Kant Studies Online 2, 4 (October 2012). Attends first Sonnenwendefest.