The room

The future person does not exist at the edit. Cannot be consulted. The chapter agrees.

What it installs is that the future override will exist, and the corridor it will stand in is real now.

The image is a building. The body is a room being built before the occupant arrives. A room with light, space and access to the building’s corridors will support whoever turns up. A room built narrow — activities fixed, views closed, coupling to the building restricted — has chosen its occupant in advance.

Pre-agency editing is room-construction. The responsibility is not consent-based. Consent is unavailable. It is corridor-based. Does the room admit the width the human architecture supplies? Does it avoid narrowing below what natural variation would have given? Does it refuse to select the occupant’s trajectory for ends outside the occupant’s own override?

An editor who attends to these acts on the future person’s behalf. One who does not is contracting, whatever the intent and whatever the procedure.

This is the short edition of Ø Applications — a summary. Where a step is compressed here, the original carries it in full. The original book (PDF) · This edition (PDF)

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