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- The Operating Model
The Problem Acquires Arrows
Prof. Dr. Ottilie Brenner-Kovacs, Institut für Organisationshermeneutik, Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien · Journal of Administrative Morphology, vol. IX, no. 1, 2026
- Das Manifest für die Angemessene Verwaltung von Vorhaben
The Manifesto for the Appropriate Administration of Undertakings
Drafted at the Café Central, Vienna, February 2001, over the course of seventeen afternoons
- Geschichten von der Neigung
Tales from the Slope: Field Reports in the Practice of Appropriate Administration
A companion volume to Das Manifest, compiled by the Standing Committee on Practical Experience, with foreword by Hofrat Dipl.-Ing. K. Wittgenstein
- Horace Milnof
A Biographical Note
Compiled from partial records, secondhand accounts, and the persistent impression that someone matching his description was often at the next table
- Applied Solaristics
A Survey of the Interpretive Disciplines Surrounding the Manifesto
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Emmerich Tarnów-Weigl, Institut für Angewandte Solaristik, Universität Wien · Vierteljahrsschrift für Methodenhermeneutik und Verwaltungsphilosophie, Vol. XLIII, No. 2
Part 4: Fictional Languages and Systems
- Rhizome
A History of the Programming Language That Replaced Trees with Webs
Dr. Elsa Kinnunen, Aalto University · Proceedings of the 17th ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on the History of Programming Languages (HOPL-IV), 2026
- Perpetua
A Language Without Termination
Dr. Veronika Seifert, Faculty of Persistent Computation, ETH Zürich · Proceedings of the 11th European Symposium on Circular Semantics (ESCS), Delft, 2025
- Apophasis
A Language of Negative Declaration
Dr. Ioannis Stavridis, Department of Computational Theology, University of Thessaloniki · LDPC, Edinburgh, 2025
- Munus
A Language of Obligation
Dr. Clara Hoffmann, Institut für Soziale Informatik, Technische Universität Wien · Acta Informatica Socialis, vol. 7, no. 2, 2026
- Shruti
The Oral Programming Language
Dr. Rajan Venkatesh, Department of Computing and Oral Traditions, IIT Madras · ESP Workshop, Bangalore, 2025
- Stare
A Common-Law Programming Language
Prof. Eleanor Blackwood, Faculty of Law and Computation, University of Edinburgh · Journal of Law and Formal Systems, vol. 18, no. 1, Spring 2026
Part 5: Ethnographic Encounters
- Among the Deployers
Notes on Software Production and Kinship Obligation in the Tëkël of the Upper Orinoco
Dr. Harriet Lyle-Bourdieu, Department of Social Anthropology, London School of Economics · Journal of Material Culture, vol. 29, no. 3
- The Madman of Shiraz
The Life and Misappropriation of Abd al-Qahar al-Faragh
- Bear Programming
The National Sport of Finland
- On the Rectification of Names
A Provincial Examination Essay on the Governance of Interfaces Between Systems
Translated and annotated by Dr. Liang Weiming (梁维明), Department of Intellectual History, Fudan University · Journal of Late Imperial Administrative Practice, vol. 12, no. 1, 2021
- The Correct Line
A History of Software Development at the Adelante Collective, 2018–2025
Part 6: The Averaging
- Slope One as Cultural Engine
On the Use of Collaborative Filtering for the Generative Production of Cultural Artifacts
Dr. Henrik Lassfolk, Institute for Applied Recommendation, Turku · with a response by Prof. Matti Koskinen, Sibelius Academy · Proceedings of the 4th Nordic Workshop on Algorithmic Culture (NorAlgKul), Turku, 2024
- The Averaging
How a Simple Algorithm Promised to Transform Humanity and Delivered Something Else
By Petra Lindqvist | The Atlantic Monthly | March 2026
- Recording-Production, Solaristics, Kitsch, and the Miraculating Machine
On the structural parallels between Lem’s Solaris, Kundera’s kitsch, the early Wittgenstein, and Deleuze & Guattari’s second synthesis
- The Librarian Without Clients
The Ergonomics of Forgetting
Submitted to the catalogue. No catalogue on record.
- A History of the Bug in the Age of Reason
Confinement, Surveillance, and the Institutional Life of the Error
Dr. Mathilde Brisseau, Centre Alexandre Koyré, EHESS · Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales, vol. 80, no. 2, 2025
- Anthology of Voided Metaphors
Nine Texts Returned to the Domains from Which They Were Borrowed
Compiled by Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Emmerich Tarnów-Weigl, with the assistance of the Standing Committee on Metaphorical Hygiene, University of Vienna
Part 8: Therapy
- Transcript of Session 14, Dr. Leuze
Sitzungsprotokoll
Dr. med. univ. Theodor Leuze · Facharzt für Nervenheilkunde und Methodische Störungen · Berggasse 21, Wien IX · (One door down from the more famous practice. Better pastry selection.)
- Das Programm, das niemals endet
The Program That Will Never End
Recovered from a terminal session of unknown provenance, found running on a decommissioned server in the basement of the Café Central, estimated uptime: 11 years