World-building beyond maps and magic

Build Little Worlds

What if citation worked differently? This lab treats citation as a world-building primitive: a compact system of rules, rituals, obligations, interfaces, refusals, and consequences that can make scholarship feel like it belongs to another world.

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Protocols

Who must name a source, when a claim becomes citeable, and what form acknowledgement can take.

Obligations

Debts, permissions, duties, refusals, and penalties that make citation socially binding.

Interfaces

Marks, ledgers, ceremonies, memory systems, annotations, and source machines that scholarship passes through.

The Experiment

A research paper usually treats citation as a parenthetical note, footnote, endnote, or bibliography entry. Here, citation becomes the atom of a world: a protocol for memory, authority, responsibility, evidence, inheritance, and dissent.

For course use

Build, collide, then read the theory

1 Generate a protocol Start with one citation rule and its parts. 2 Open the Combinator Collide protocols, breed customs, export a lineage. 3 Read the module Use the course text, bestiary, and design notes.

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Citation Protocol Generator

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