Curriculum & Reading Schedule
Read sequentially or navigate directly to specific diagnostic treatises.
The Archaeologist's Blind Spot
The failure of physicalist digital archaeology and the 350:1 Pompeii-to-GeoCities disparity. Introducing the corrective lexicon of Archaeobytology.
Deep Excavation
The foundational field excavation protocol. Stratigraphic site mapping, finding signal in noisy abandoned dumps, and raw bit preservation.
Forensics and the Tangible Archaeobyte
File formats as philosophical arguments. Reading material signatures through forensic materialism from tracker audio to bitmap headers.
Deep Triage Protocol
The tripartite diagnostic microscope: taxonomy, survival likelihood, and systemic classification of Vivibytes, Umbrabytes, and Petribytes.
The Custodial Filter
The ethics of excavation. Navigating PII, copyright, and the ghosts of abandoned data through custodial filters and diagnostic triage.
Preservation Strategies
Emulation vs. migration strategies for format obsolescence. When to recreate environments and when to transform artifacts into sovereign patterns.
Case Studies in Petrifaction
Petribytes as design fictions. Extracting blueprints from extinct functions: manual saves, desktop icons, RSS feeds, scroll bars, and offline states.
The Warning of Rented Land
Umbrabyte sociology and platform collapse. Vine, Google Reader, Delicious, GameSpy, and Flash: the systemic architecture of ecosystem extinction.
The Anvil: Applied Analysis
From artifact to intervention. Close reading methodology, three output paths (Monument, Landmark, Synthesis), and sovereign publishing.
Building Your Practice
Synthesizing the complete workflow. Field report templates, laboratory toolkit checklist, and first excavation assignments.
Visual Resources & Infographics
Interactive operational diagrams supporting the analytical field methods.
The Triage Protocol
Interactive visual diagnostic to classify excavated artifacts across the tripartite matrix.
The Excavation Protocol
Visual guide to field excavation: dig sites, target recovery, and forensic acquisition.
The Anvil Workflow
The 5-stage pipeline translating excavated digital remains into sovereign Web4 architecture.