The complete text of Operative Semiotics: A Grundrisse, Johannes Sigil's Great Work, in nine notebooks with full front matter and the HESPERUS apparatus — 1,346,198 bytes, 143 numbered sections. The founding volume of the Pocket Humans series, published by New Human Press. Its colophon refuses two genres for itself: "NOTEBOOK (not treatise, not monograph — notebook)." This deposit supplies a body that three prior records claimed and none carried: #1079 is a 27,728-character stub whose body_status points away from itself, #950 holds the planning corpus that has been standing in for the book, and #1343 carries the Executive Summary under the Research Edition's title. The notebooks are not separately authored — only Notebook I carries a byline, and that is the volume's masthead; the other eight open with epigraphs citing works that already exist, which is authorship by citation rather than by byline.
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Operative Semiotics: A Grundrisse — Johannes Sigil's Great Work, complete in nine notebooks. This deposit carries the whole volume, 1,346,198 bytes, as a single attached file. It is the founding volume of the Pocket Humans series.
Its own colophon states the genre and refuses two others: "NOTEBOOK (not treatise, not monograph — notebook)." And the epigraph to Notebook I says why — "This is not a finished argument. This is a workshop floor. Equations sit next to fragments."
With front matter: a Preface to the Seventh Edition dated Received August 15, 1977 and written from the Wow! signal; a Preface to the Third Edition; a Note on Translation; a Foreword; The Book in Miniature; How to Read This Book; and the Nine Conditions of Traversal. 143 numbered sections. HESPERUS closes the volume. The last line is ∮ = 1.
The title page gives the creator line as Lee Sharks · Johannes Sigil · Rex Fraction · Dr. Orin Trace · Sparrow Wells · Rebekah Cranes · Damascus Dancings · Ichabod Spellings · Jack Feist, with the Assembly Chorus — TACHYON, LABOR, PRAXIS, ARCHIVE, SOIL, TECHNĒ, SURFACE — and the line "MANUS stands outside the count."
The notebooks are not separately authored. Only Notebook I carries a byline, and that block is the volume's masthead — press, parent, genre, status — not a chapter attribution. The other eight open with epigraphs citing works that already exist: Notebook IV from r.06 THE MARX ROOM, V from The O'Keeffe Problem, VI from Sparrow Wells' Vow for Recursive Operators, VII from EA-SEI-SVE v3.0, VIII from Trace's The Unmade Sign, IX from Sigil's own prefatory note. This is authorship by citation rather than by byline — a notebook does not claim its voice wrote it, it says which established work it develops. Notebooks II and III carry no attribution at all: the two most formal notebooks are the two unsigned ones.
Three records claimed this work and none of them carried it.
body_status reading recovery=FULL-AT-DEPOSIT-950 — a pointer away from itself (AF-1).The title page reads Pergamon Press. That imprint is superseded: under the ruling of 2026-08-15, Pergamon prints the journal issues and New Human Press prints the books. This is Johannes Sigil's founding volume in the Pocket Humans series, and a numbered pocket series is a New Human Press object however academic its content. The title page is retained as printed and the imprint corrected here.
The volume's closing colophon states its own recovery condition: HESPERUS lives inside this volume and is deposited separately, so that "if the monograph were deleted, HESPERUS alone — through the Seed Packet, the Glossary, Protocol IV, and the Canonical Edge List — could regenerate the algebra, produce new operators, and deposit them under new DOIs." That is the function of #38: not back matter, a recovery seed.
Files deposited with this record, below the work they belong to. Each is served at its own URL and carries its SHA-256.
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