UNMASKING 4

ZONE 3 — GOVERNANCE OF DESCENDANTS

WHO MAY DETERMINE WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?

LOADING MODE…

Technical possibility is not cultural authority.

This desk asks who may describe, repair, circulate, materialise, restrict or refuse what happens next to a digital cultural descendant.

PUBLIC EXHIBITION MODE

THIS DESK TESTS GOVERNANCE, NOT IDENTITY.

Your choices remain on this screen unless you deliberately print or send a completed basket. If sending fails, a delivery-only copy may be queued on this workstation for up to 24 hours.

RESEARCH MODE DISABLED Requires prospective ethics, venue and data approval.

PRODUCTION BASKET

Governance threshold

MATERIALSEMANTICPLACEGOVERNANCE

RETENTION / RETRIEVABILITY

Can authority operate if the evidence cannot be found?

A permission, provenance or ownership claim is only actionable when the evidence behind it remains locatable, contextualisable and usable.

REFUSAL IS AN OUTCOME

Not producing a state can be a governed decision.

WITHHOLD, REFUSE, REQUIRE MORE EVIDENCE and RETAIN MULTIPLE STATES are not failed interactions.

APPARATUS / MEASUREMENT

The apparatus itself conditions the result.

The sequence of questions demonstrates the Measurement Effect: an apparatus for decision-making helps condition the state it produces. In public exhibition mode, visitor choices are not retained.

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