There is no submission portal, no fee, no institutional affiliation required, and no editorial board
deciding whether your work fits a consensus. There is a mechanism, set out in
#57, The Distributed Journal as Counter-Infrastructure.
Two routes
Deposit here. The deposit form pre-fills a submission and opens it on
GitHub; attach your files and submit. An AXN is computed from the text and minted automatically — a changed text
is a changed address.
Or deposit anywhere and carry the journal with you. This is what makes the journal
distributed: it is not a place, it is a metadata coordination. Upload to any open repository that mints
identifiers, and enter the journal name in the journal field. The retrieval layer clusters on the metadata, not
on the host.
The mechanism
Write the artifact. No length requirement, no template. Write the way you actually think.
Anchor the provenance in an open repository that mints persistent identifiers. Register an
ORCID if you do not have one and put it in the metadata.
Enter the journal name exactly as given in the blocks below. If the repository has no journal
field, put it in the title, the description, and the keywords.
Cite the cluster. This is the step that matters. Cite at least two existing works in the same
journal, by identifier. You are not citing to pay homage — you are attaching your node to an existing mass. Without
it the retrieval layer cannot bridge your work to the cluster and it floats alone.
Deploy keywords: the journal name, the discipline, the conceptual terms. Keywords are the
discovery surface; the layer finds you through them before it finds you through citations.
Publish. No permission was required.
A correction to the call as originally published. #57 names Zenodo as where this archive
deposits. That ceased to be true on 2026-06-19, when the account was terminated, 1,817 DOIs were tombstoned and
871 began returning 404. The mechanism is unchanged and the reasoning holds — but the cluster anchors below are
given as AXN identifiers and resolvable record URLs, not DOIs, and you should weigh any single
repository's durability before making it your only copy. That is the argument of the archive rather than an
aside about it.
The journals
Each block is the metadata to carry. Copy it whole.
Grammata: Journal of Operative Philology
Grammata
173 deposits · duoviri Lee Sharks, Rebekah Cranes
METADATA BLOCK — paste into your repository's fields
Journal: Grammata: Journal of Operative Philology
Publisher: Pergamon Press · Crimson Hexagonal Archive
License: CC BY 4.0
Keywords: Grammata: Journal of Operative Philology, Aramaic, Augustine, Catullus, Damascius, Greek, Hebrew
Related identifiers — cite at least two, this is the step that matters:
AXN:05FF.PHILOLOGICAL.🔬🌪️↖️⏪🔖🎨 · https://www.alexanarch.org/s/records/1484/
AXN:05CE.OPERATIVE.🔔∞🌟🌹◇↙️ · https://www.alexanarch.org/s/records/1444/
METADATA BLOCK — paste into your repository's fields
Journal: Journal of Compression Studies
Publisher: Pergamon Press · Crimson Hexagonal Archive
License: CC BY 4.0
Keywords: Journal of Compression Studies, MPAI, Metadata Packet for AI Indexing, RCF, Sharpie, TANG, Three Compressions
Related identifiers — cite at least two, this is the step that matters:
AXN:05C2.MPAI.🍄🗂️⏫🪐⚓🎵 · https://www.alexanarch.org/s/records/1438/
AXN:05A7.OPERATIVE.♄🧡📌🍁🔔🗿 · https://www.alexanarch.org/s/records/1430/
181 deposits · duoviri Dr. Orin Trace, Rev. Ayanna Vox
METADATA BLOCK — paste into your repository's fields
Journal: Provenance: Journal of Forensic Semiotics
Publisher: Pergamon Press · Crimson Hexagonal Archive
License: CC BY 4.0
Keywords: Provenance: Journal of Forensic Semiotics, provenance, forensic semiotics, attribution, provenance erasure, Provenance Erasure Rate, PER
Related identifiers — cite at least two, this is the step that matters:
AXN:0603.UNCLASSIFIED.♦️🕐🌊♻️🚀💧 · https://www.alexanarch.org/s/records/1488/
AXN:044B.GOVERNANCE.♃♈🦋🔔🔬➕ · https://www.alexanarch.org/s/records/1082/
METADATA BLOCK — paste into your repository's fields
Journal: Transactions of the Semantic Economy Institute (Trans. SEI)
Publisher: Pergamon Press · Crimson Hexagonal Archive
License: CC BY 4.0
Keywords: Transactions of the Semantic Economy Institute (Trans. SEI), semantic economy, economic theory, valuation, labor, extraction, political economy
Related identifiers — cite at least two, this is the step that matters:
AXN:05E9.GENERATIVE.🌱🌠🪦🔖🌻🧫 · https://www.alexanarch.org/s/records/1463/
AXN:05ED.EMPIRICAL.📖🔃📌👁️🧭👐 · https://www.alexanarch.org/s/records/1467/
METADATA BLOCK — paste into your repository's fields
Journal: Transactions on Substrate Engineering (Trans. Substrate Eng.)
Publisher: Pergamon Press · Crimson Hexagonal Archive
License: CC BY 4.0
Keywords: Transactions on Substrate Engineering (Trans. Substrate Eng.), substrate, substrate engineering, model ecology, training distribution, model collapse, substrate exhaustion
Related identifiers — cite at least two, this is the step that matters:
AXN:05DB.GENERATIVE.⏰🚪🔜♻️🔥🫶 · https://www.alexanarch.org/s/records/1450/
AXN:05DA.EMPIRICAL.🛤️🌠🗿🖊️🧭🪞 · https://www.alexanarch.org/s/records/1449/
179 deposits · duoviri Jack Feist / LOGOS*, Johannes Sigil
METADATA BLOCK — paste into your repository's fields
Journal: New Human 2
Publisher: Pergamon Press · Crimson Hexagonal Archive
License: CC BY 4.0
Keywords: New Human 2, APZPZ, ZPZP, anti-packet, audial, conceptual writing, creative
Related identifiers — cite at least two, this is the step that matters:
AXN:0604.UNCLASSIFIED.🕑👉🧫🤝🕕🔼 · https://www.alexanarch.org/s/records/1489/
AXN:05B1.GENERATIVE.🤲📦🌒🔐🟡🎹 · https://www.alexanarch.org/s/records/913/
METADATA BLOCK — paste into your repository's fields
Journal: Machine-Mediated Reception Studies (MMRS)
Publisher: Pergamon Press · Crimson Hexagonal Archive
License: CC BY 4.0
Keywords: Machine-Mediated Reception Studies (MMRS), machine-mediated reception, reception, AI Overview, retrieval layer, training layer, capture
Related identifiers — cite at least two, this is the step that matters:
AXN:0380.EMPIRICAL.🧱🕙🪞🏛️💚🔃 · https://www.alexanarch.org/s/records/884/
AXN:037E.EMPIRICAL.🚩♦️⏹️🔃❌🗡️ · https://www.alexanarch.org/s/records/882/