Archive - Protocolized

Elizabeth Maher's world-building series continues, reimagining American folklore from a protocolized perspective

6 hrs ago • Thing Party and Protocolized

Challenges: Trivial, Grand, and Whitehead

Introducing the Protocol Institute Challenges program

Jun 9 • Venkatesh Rao and Protocolized

Maintaining Everything That Matters

Matthew McDowell-Sweet and Mike Travers discuss Stewart Brand’s recently-published book ‘Maintenance: Of Everything’

Jun 3 • Matthew McDowell-Sweet and Protocolized

2026 Protocol Symposium: New Nature

Call for abstracts open, due June 14, 2026

Jun 1 • Venkatesh Rao and Protocolized

May 2026

Irrigation by Protocol: When Vineyards Delegate Decisions to Networks

When vineyards can speak through data, the question isn’t whether to listen but whether we still know how to read what the vines themselves are saying

May 30 • Jason Collins and Protocolized

The Overloaded Train

In this, our first crossover between two protocol fiction universes, Sachin Benny's Unified Eurasian Train Line passes through Spencer Nitkey's…

May 22 • Sachin and Protocolized

Inventing New Nature

Defining the Protocol Institute's research mission

May 12 • Venkatesh Rao and Protocolized

All You Can Do Here Is Leave

A rich new series by Elizabeth Maher seeds an extended universe around T.R.O.(L.L.), awarded in our Building and Burning Bridges protocol fiction…

May 8 • Thing Party and Protocolized

Protocols for the Long Now

The Protocol Institute collaborates with the Long Now Foundation on three participatory, cross-disciplinary labs – applications are due June 5!

May 5 • Denise Hearn, Protocolized, and Timber Stinson-Schroff

April 2026

Introducing the Protocol Institute

Building a field and community to steward the planetary-scale process of protocolization

Apr 27 • Timber Stinson-Schroff and Protocolized

The Headless Empire

The Magazine of Strange Rules

Apr 23 • Sachin and Protocolized

A Primordial Computing Soup

Fostering AI art scenius, creating an open planetary network of robots

Apr 14 • Venkatesh Rao and Protocolized

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