Books

Ed. Protocol Institute Team

26 foundational essays by 31 authors from the Summer of Protocols program, carefully edited and sequenced to introduce the discipline of Protocol Studies. 35…

Summer of Protocols 2023

ProtocolKit is the physical edition of the Summer of Protocols research corpus — a packed 3-ring binder with over 400 pages of research papers, essays, frame…

Writers challenged to take a technical term — from internet engineering, policy, or protocol design — and make it the focus of a story. Debut fiction contest…

Six stories by Sachin Benny about humanity's attempts to preserve its libraries for 1,000 years — distilled from a 40-person futures workshop via AI.

Why do ghosts have to stay in houses? Winners and shortlist from Protocolized's second fiction contest — what happens when the machines of the world become h…

A story cycle by Sachin Benny

Three stories of empire, transit, and information in a world where the protocols of the railroad determine the protocols of everything else.

A story cycle by Elizabeth Maher

Two stories about the bureaucracy of belonging — the paperwork of leaving, the ledgers of loss, and what it costs to disappear from a system that insists on …

A serial novel by Spencer Nitkey

A six-part serial novel about perception, predation, and the protocols that govern what we are allowed to see — and be seen by.

A story cycle by Randy Lubin

Three stories from Stockton — where Caduceus City's healing network, a democratic caucus, and one worker's fight against an algorithmic employer reveal how p…