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title: open protocols
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open protocols

Freely propogated social and technical protocols woven together into a memetically tight compound cultural protocol of improvisational, **empirical imagination**. 

If institutional protocols tend to have constraints on reproducibility or empirical veracity (military classification or organizational newspeak), open protocols are the spontaneous result of the absolute zero-point of these impulses: maximal memetic reproduction combined with dedicated empirical curiousity and integrity. Exposed to the weathers of this extitutional zero-point, compound protocols become refined  into a flow-state or [machinic point] where the cultural injunction to open experimentation is entangled with a technical toolkit such that the technical protocol becomes synonymous with freedom and pluralism. 

Examples: LSD, Sadomasochism, turntables.