Terminological Twists
What's in a word? Each story in this anthology uncovers a possible world hidden behind everyday jargon — tales of hyperstition where terminology shapes reality.
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Four Doors: An Architectural Memory Protocol
This paper presents 'Four Doors' as an architectural memory protocol that applies medieval monastic mnemonic techniques to a contemporary retreat space, using the building's physical architecture and inscribed doorways as mnemonic devices organized around the intercolumnia principle. The author draws on Mary Carruthers' scholarship on medieval memory practices to transform the Lodge at St. Edward Park into a 'gathering site' and 'machine for thinking' where each architectural threshold functions as a gateway to associated ideas.
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The Librarians
A Summer of Protocols fiction anthology exploring librarians and archivists as protocol designers — curators who shape what knowledge is preserved, findable, and forgotten.
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Founding Memorabilia from the Order of Protocological Death
This speculative document presents founding memorabilia from a fictional 2038 organization called the Order of Protocological Death, which administers end-of-life rites for collective entities and worlds through practices like ritual deletion and memorial compression. The text establishes a taxonomy of protocological deaths (stillbirth, death by success, ossification, mismanagement) and outlines the Order's core functions including world health assessment, funeral design, and protocol archive stewardship.
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