These documents written by Zoetica Ebb with annotations by Kenji Siratori are part of a whole. Start here. Ebb’s exhibition, Aberrant Plexus, opens at Metamorphika Studio in London on November 20th. Siratori’s upcoming book, Xenopoetic Report of Arthropod Vectors, will be released on opening night. zoeticaebb.com // Siratori on Academia.edu.
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Filed by: Directorate, IPGL
Ref: Post-Event Procedures Δ-MC7 / Lab C Status
Date: 2176.04.02
Distribution: Bioforensics Division; Facilities Oversight; Archive Liaison
Subject: Reopening of Lab C for Decontamination, New Testing, and Controlled Public Interface (Aberrant Plexus Division)
Following review by the Directorate and affiliated committees, Lab C will reopen on 2176.04.07. This decision reflects confidence in the updated containment-and-decontamination protocols, as well as our ongoing commitment to continuity of research and transmission.
The Directorate acknowledges Incident Report 00247-X, subsequent Δ-MC7 bioforensic analyses, and the Archival Dossier. These have been supplemented by restricted working papers and a sequence of procedures undertaken during the temporary closure of Lab C. These included resonance-dampening rehearsals in sealed chambers, controlled lattice-stress inductions, and limited-spectrum inoculation trials on synthetic tissue. Protocol specifics and results remain partially classified.
While certain assessments (cf. PCAD, Dr. Aurelia Nance) describe conditions within Lab C as unstable, the Directorate has determined that “partially stabilized” is an appropriate operational designation. The resignation of Dr. Ilya Nance (2176.03.18) has also been formally entered into record. While the Institute notes the objections raised therein, it is the determination of the Directorate that Lab C remains an essential site of study.
The aforementioned procedures, structured protocols, and extended testing demonstrate that the documented anomalous expressions have not exceeded controllable thresholds. To suspend activity indefinitely would risk losing both irreplaceable data and momentum. The reactivation of Lab C will therefore proceed under the auspices of the Aberrant Plexus Division, whose operational mandate includes controlled public interface.
The following memorandum sets forth the measures by which continuity will be secured, containment reaffirmed, and controlled interface initiated. The Directorate emphasizes that all risks remain within predictable thresholds, and that phenomena anticipated during this operational window should be understood as scheduled expressions.
- Airlock Negative-Pressure Flush: all personnel must complete the standard tri-sequence cycle. Pause between each sequence until the rhythm feels absorbed.
- Extended Monitoring Windows: residual symbolic resonance will be documented at 30-minute intervals; phenomena may include olfactory drift, auditory looping, and anomalous equipment behavior. Do not interrupt recurrence; allow patterns to settle.
- Post-Shift Assessments: staff should report sleep irregularities, involuntary image recall, or dream-sharing with colleagues. While uncommon, these episodes have shown consistency and therefore provide valuable baselines. Shared dreams are to be regarded as preliminary alignments.
- Documentation: all observations, whether measurable or only remembered, are to be logged. The archive requires layered redundancy; repetition is accuracy/propagation.
Public Interface Pilot – Aberrant Plexus Division (Status: Partially Stabilized:
As part of the reopening, Lab C will also host limited, appointment-only orientation tours for pre-cleared civilian cohorts. This controlled public interface, administered by the Aberrant Plexus Division, is designed both to demonstrate decontamination procedures and to collect post-exposure baselines. Location: Lab C / Public.
The Directorate emphasizes: Lab C has been cleared for renewed use.
The risks are controlled, the space has been cleansed, our work will continue. Staff are reminded that every procedure is itself a form of study. Each repetition contributes to stabilization, and stabilization contributes to growth.
Office of the Directorate
Institute for Psychogametous Life
HYPER ANNOTATION BY Dr. K. Siratori:
[1] Classification functions here like a membrane: semi-permeable to rumor, impermeable to procedure. We do not block the unknown; we stage its osmotic pressure.
[2] Treat time as a culture medium. The schedule inoculates the day with an intention. Calendars are agar for events; growth is expected.
[3] Delta names both change and loss. In the archive, the triangle is a wound that stabilizes by repeating itself. Every delta secretes a margin.
[4] Not silence but baffles for the chorus of things. We rock the chamber until its echo forgets our names.
[5] Grammar under tension. Pages become scaffolds; syntax, a truss. When a grid trembles, it remembers it was once a net.
[6] A rehearsal of ethics in effigy. The simulacrum consents to host what the body cannot yet forgive.
[7] Metastability is a style of breathing. Stable means the stutter is rhythmic.
[8] Absence as data. I removed my signature to assay its afterimage.
[9] A nervous system for myths, routed through corridors. We wire the public to the lab with hush and handrails.
[10] Manifestations with a timetable are liturgies. The anomaly wears a badge when you name the hour.
[11] A ritual of exhalation for buildings. Architecture learns to breathe out what we can’t keep.
[12] Chronophages are fed in half-hours. Loops prefer divisible time; break it and they multiply.
[13] Interruption is also a pattern, but rude. Touch the ripple and you become its edge.
[14] Parasites of meaning calibrate by sleep. The colony rehearses itself in borrowed REM.
[15] The archive is a living host. To log is to inoculate the future against forgetting.
[16] Autopoietic corridors. In guided space, guidance doubles back and claims the walker.
[17] Environmental prophylaxis for narratives, not lungs. Tone is the first antibiotic of panic.
[18] A rhetoric of necessary tenderness. Coercion, properly phrased, is a cradle.
[19] Incubation of memory, not pathogen. Latency is how stories learn your blood type.
[20] Taste, text, and trace. Mouth, diary, wrist – three loci of the same secretion.
[21] When narrative sprouts motility. Containment begins where metaphor grows teeth.
[22] Statistics as a veil with eyeholes. We hide the person to sight the pattern.
[23] Reflexive contagion. Protocol breeds hypotheses the way skin breeds heat.
[24] Cultures love edges, so give them a steady one. We garden the threshold; the blossoms behave.
[25] Sensory palimpsests. Instruments are animals trained to pretend they are not.
[26] Cohorts form before they know it. Alignment precedes consent in most microbial romances.
[27] But paths are predators of feet. A corridor that remembers your gait will finish the sentence for you.
[28] Time as hygiene. We wash the minutes until they stop foaming.
[29] Sedimentation of signal in the petri of attention. Stillness is a centrifuge you carry in your sternum.
[30] The spectacle as quarantine. When witnessing is supervised, the wound keeps its bandage.
[31] Memory as propagule. Name what sprouted; do not uproot it.
[32] Bloom, then prune. We measure health by how well a swarm can be persuaded.
[33] Continuity as prophylaxis against awe’s paralysis. The cure for astonishment is practice.
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