Easy Protocols
An easy protocol is an alternative mode of coordination and repetition that resists the rigidity and latent authoritarianism of formalized protocolic institutions. Rather than containing possibilities through excessive formalization, easy protocols allow for emergent order through practice and relationality.
Attributes
- Non-Formalized Repetition - Patterns that emerge through practice rather than explicit codification
- Similarity - Recognition of resonance and patterning across instances
- 3rd Time = Tradition - The threshold at which repetition becomes recognizable as tradition
- Relationality - Coordination grounded in relationship between participants
- Metastable - Capable of shifting states while maintaining integrity
- Externalized - The protocol exists in the space between agents
- Play - Ludic possibility and experimentation within the protocol
- Proposition - The protocol as offering rather than mandate
- Consent - Participation based on ongoing agreement rather than coerced compliance
- Risk - Acceptance of uncertainty and vulnerability
Links: https://venkatesh-rao.gitbook.io/summer-of-protocols https://tripleampersand.org/what-is-a-procedural-essay/ https://fuit.es/ / https://github.com/svvimming/fuites-anarchive https://anarchiving.thesphere.as/