AI tools create windows into hidden business protocols by disrupting normal operations, revealing tensions between production and authority that standard organizational descriptions obscure. Rafa Fernández explores what happens when formal policies fail to explain recurring breakdowns or unexpected successes, suggesting that observing these fault lines requires looking beyond tooling and execution to deeper protocol structures.
Kei Kreutler reports from Memoria, an unconference on spaced repetition and memory systems organized by Saul Munn and Raj Thimmiah. The Memory Research Group is launching a new module on digital memory architectures, examining memory management in AI, computational memory history, and how digital technologies reshape human remembrance.
Kei Kreutler
The Memory Research Group, a special interest group incubated by Summer of Protocols, launches a monthly series examining memory across disciplines, starting with Frances Yates' classical account of the art of memory. Rather than debating whether machines should automate memorization, the group investigates how contemporary tools reshape our understanding of memory itself, moving beyond surface-level recall toward deeper modes of knowing.
Kei Kreutler
This issue examines California's wildfire management through the lens of prescribed and wild fires at the wildland-urban interface, tracing how 20th-century fire suppression policies fundamentally contradicted ecological understanding of fire's necessary role in ecosystems. The case study explores combustion as a memory practice and investigates how new tools reshape our epistemological relationship with fire management.
Nathalia Scherer, Jiordi Rosales