Easy Protocol
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.
Truisms
- Suggesting that its easy to do something decentralized would be a hard protocol.
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/
Books
Parables of the virtual: cultural theory has been overdetermined by positionality. Movement doesn’t happen on positional grid but happens on an affective register. What’s the register of an easy protocol? imminent, experiential, doesn’t have a past (doesn’t have a history). Has a virtuality. on the question of Identity vs. Universalism.