Supplementary / Theory

Theoretical Foundations

The intellectual framework of Archaeobytology.

Position papers and manifestos establishing the discipline's core commitments, methodological positioning, and contributions to digital studies.

Positioning

Disciplinary Positioning

Foundations

The Discipline Between

Archaeobytology as the necessary bridge between Media Studies and Computer Science, rejecting the separation of technical function and cultural meaning.

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Dialectics

The Archive-Anvil Dialectic

Why preservation (The Archive) and creation (The Anvil) must be a unified practice. To build better systems, we must excavate the old; to understand the old, we must build.

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Ontology

Digital Materialism

Why platforms are infrastructure, not just software. Moving beyond the "cloud" metaphor to understand the material reality of servers, cables, and code.

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Critique

Against Platform Solutionism

A critique of "app for everything" culture. Why we need critique without blueprints, and why not every problem is a software engineering ticket.

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Methods

Methodological Commitments

Our work is grounded in specific commitments that distinguish Archaeobytology from general tech criticism or computer history.

Empiricism Over Ideology

Evidence-based platform critique. We look at the API responses, the terms of service diffs, and the database schemas.

Historical Grounding

Why Digital Archaeology matters. Connecting current platform decay to historical cycles of enclosement.

The Three Pillars

Declaration, Connection, Ground. The fundamental framework for analyzing sovereignty.

Structural Sovereignty

Sovereignty as a structural property of the system, not an aspiration of the user.

Contributions

Intellectual Contributions

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  • Platform Studies: What Archaeobytology adds to the existing field.
  • Sovereignty Theater: Distinguishing genuine solutions from marketing.
  • Translation Problem: Moving from academic wisdom to engineering design.
  • Methodological Rigor: Building intellectual authority through standards.