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ARCH 301 Doctoral Colloquium & Research Seminar

Graduate Seminar & Colloquium

The Sovereign Episteme & Post-Platform Futures: Philosophical Foundations and Institutional Counter-Gravity

Stewardship: Josie Jefferson & Felix Velasco
Curriculum Nodes: 9 Academic Treatises
Anchor DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19432977

Curriculum & Reading Schedule

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Colloquium 0 Epistemic Critique

The Institutional Void

Why existing memory institutions failed the digital age, and how the collapse of the archival consensus necessitated Archaeobytology.

Syllabus Node 01 Read Document
Colloquium 1 Political Economy

The Business of the Archive

The political economy of memory. Monetization of nostalgia, predatory preservation, and the structural impossibility of cloud longevity.

Syllabus Node 02 Read Document
Colloquium 2 Sovereignty Theory

The Economics of the Anvil

The economic incentives of the Anvil: value creation through resurrection, heirloom data stewardship, and generative sovereign networks.

Syllabus Node 03 Read Document
Colloquium 3 Archival Philosophy

Building the Seed Bank

The philosophy of the digital Svalbard. Preserving operational primitives, compiler binaries, and interaction paradigms for post-platform eras.

Syllabus Node 04 Read Document
Colloquium 4 Phenomenology

Curating the Haunted Forest

Spectral digital ruins and the phenomenology of abandoned spaces. Navigating digital trauma, ghost accounts, and dead web landscapes.

Syllabus Node 05 Read Document
Colloquium 5 Materiality & Geography

The Political Economy of Ground

Physical substrate vs. digital abstraction. Fiber routes, datacenters, sovereign land, and the material anchors of supposedly ethereal bytes.

Syllabus Node 06 Read Document
Colloquium 6 Disciplinary History

From Practice to Discipline — Movement Building

Creating permanent academic, legal, and operational institutions. The transition from rogue data recovery to an established discipline.

Syllabus Node 07 Read Document
Colloquium 7 Public Discourse

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.

Syllabus Node 08 Read Document
Colloquium 8 Theoretical Capstone

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.

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