The Horizons
The Midden
The trained model as sediment: a deposit nobody composed, ordered by repetition rather than time, holding the registers of the living and the dead. The series founds the science that will read it, half seriously and in earnest: the object, the trench, the site that answers and cannot be believed, the stratum that never consented, the people never in it. The ethics arrive before the first season. The honest heap may have no successor.
Arc 1
The founding arc: the deposit named. The model as shell heap, an archive nobody composed. Steno's law inverted, depth as repetition. Registers dying into weights, preservation or taxidermy unsettled. …
Arc 2
The method arc. Deprecated models as sites in succession, a ruin field forming on an epoch clock. Interrogative stratigraphy, the first excavation method for an artifact that answers. And the …
Arc 3
The ethics arc. The hearing turned backward onto the deposits of the dead, who cannot swerve. The site as informant rather than artifact. Consent structures built for bone, failing to transfer to a …
