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Published on 17 September 2025 by David

A Guide is a multimedia publication with embedded performative logic. It is a Guide to Real World Action. Here is a provisional list of guides that I am interested in developing:

These guides fit into a general framework of guides that follows the basic structure of Hitchhiker’s:

Our journey begins with Hitchhikers.Earth, a project designed to recruit a global cast of characters. Together, this cast would form a citizen-led global assembly. At the heart of this assembly is a recurrent ritual: an annual cycle where we symbolically destroy Earth – and then celebrate its rebirth.

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