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The transition from isolated publication to infrastructural construction marks a decisive epistemic shift in contemporary knowledge production, wherein the corpus is no longer conceived as a linear book but as a federated system of persistence composed of interoperable yet jurisdictionally distinct bodies. Within this model, the numerical spine functions as a structural backbone, while parallel entities—such as an autonomous artistic or curatorial corpus—retain their own classificatory logic through a dedicated namespace, linked semantically rather than absorbed hierarchically. This distinction is crucial because absorption produces homogenisation, whereas federation enables structured plurality, allowing heterogeneous practices to coexist within a shared persistence infrastructure. The repository layer—comprising DOI-issuing archives, distributed storage platforms, and machine-readable metadata—thus becomes not a neutral container but a formal argument about survival, asserting that citability, retrievability, and machine legibility constitute the minimum conditions for long-term cultural endurance. A pedagogical stratum further extends the system temporally by transforming the corpus into a reproducible method, ensuring that the work is not merely stored but enacted, taught, and re-instantiated across new institutional contexts. The resulting architecture is therefore neither archive nor publication but an ecosystem, defined by redundancy, cross-referencing, and infrastructural autonomy, in which survival does not depend on recognition but on the durability of links, identifiers, and metadata schemas. In this framework, persistence is not a by-product of scholarship; it is its primary material and final form.
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