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Das Protokoll

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This issue features an AI-translated and hand-edited summary of the German book Das Protokoll, tracing how protocols evolved from palace etiquette under Louis XIV to modern internet code. The piece argues that protocol fundamentally solves the problem of access and gatekeeping: as rulers could no longer maintain direct contact with growing populations, strict ceremonial protocols regulated which impressions and people reached the sovereign.

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