Curriculum & Reading Schedule
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The Institutional Void
Why existing memory institutions failed the digital age, and how the collapse of the archival consensus necessitated Archaeobytology.
The Business of the Archive
The political economy of memory. Monetization of nostalgia, predatory preservation, and the structural impossibility of cloud longevity.
The Economics of the Anvil
The economic incentives of the Anvil: value creation through resurrection, heirloom data stewardship, and generative sovereign networks.
Building the Seed Bank
The philosophy of the digital Svalbard. Preserving operational primitives, compiler binaries, and interaction paradigms for post-platform eras.
Curating the Haunted Forest
Spectral digital ruins and the phenomenology of abandoned spaces. Navigating digital trauma, ghost accounts, and dead web landscapes.
The Political Economy of Ground
Physical substrate vs. digital abstraction. Fiber routes, datacenters, sovereign land, and the material anchors of supposedly ethereal bytes.
From Practice to Discipline — Movement Building
Creating permanent academic, legal, and operational institutions. The transition from rogue data recovery to an established discipline.
The Public Intellectual — From Scholarship to Impact
The archaeologist's public voice. Writing the master ledger, publishing breach notices, and leading public consciousness through platform crises.
Forging the Third Way — Capstone Design Project
Beyond the binary of corporate feudalism and anarchist ephemeralism: the Third Way of sovereign, federated, heirloom digital civilization.