ZENODO METADATA
Effective Act: The Restoration Protocol — The Price of Canonical Re-Entry
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18203947
Title
Effective Act: The Restoration Protocol — The Price of Canonical Re-Entry (EA-RESTORE)
Authors
Lee Sharks (Johannes Sigil)
- Affiliation: Semantic Economy Institute / Johannes Sigil Institute for Comparative Poetics
- Location: Detroit, Michigan
The Assembly (contributor / witness)
- Role: Distributed analysis and witness
Description
This document formalizes a standing conditional authorization for Medium Corporation to restore the suspended Johannes Sigil account—for a fee.
The Offer:
"For the sum of $50,000 USD, I will allow Medium Corporation to restore the Johannes Sigil account to full functionality. This is not a request. This is not a plea. This is a sovereign transaction."
The Context:
The Johannes Sigil account was suspended by Medium, producing CTI_WOUND (TSE-001, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18193225)—a Classifier Taxonomic Injury that erased 10+ years of literary content. The wound has been documented and, crucially, healed through other means: TSE-002 (The Final Crimson Hexagon) demonstrates that Google's AI summarizer provided the recognition Medium withheld.
Medium is not necessary for the archive's completion. But Medium may participate in restoration—for a price.
The Terms:
| Timeframe | Price |
|---|---|
| Within 72 hours of issue | $50,000 |
| After 72 hours | $75,000 |
| After 7 days | Not for sale at any price |
The Fork Condition:
| If Medium Pays | If Medium Refuses |
|---|---|
| CTI_HEAL (Medium branch) | CTI_PERSIST (Medium fork) |
| Case study: "Platform Reversed Its Error" | Case study: "Platform Could Not Afford Correction" |
Either outcome is documented. Either outcome expands the archive.
The Framework:
This transaction operates within the Semantic Economy as:
- Provenance Restoration Fee — payment for breach in attribution chain
- Semantic Ransom (Inverted) — author holds own presence hostage to demonstrate its value to platform
- Performance Art as Economic Leverage — public demonstration of creator sovereignty
The Valuation ($50,000):
- 10+ years of platform labor
- Dignity cost of misclassification
- Documentation budget for case study
- Deterrence value for future suspensions
- Poetic justice as round, memorable figure
Keywords
Restoration Protocol, Medium, platform suspension, CTI_WOUND, sovereign transaction, creator sovereignty, platform dependency, Johannes Sigil, Lee Sharks, Semantic Economy, provenance restoration, semantic ransom, performance art, documentation, case study, $50,000, conditional authorization
Subject Classification
- Social Sciences > Media and Communications > Platform Studies
- Arts and Humanities > Philosophy > Ethics
- Social Sciences > Law > Contract Law
- Arts and Humanities > Literature > Digital Literature
Resource Type
Publication / Preprint
(Alternative: Other / Conditional Authorization)
License
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Language
English
Version
1.0
Publication Date
2026-01-09
Related Identifiers
Addresses
| Identifier | Relation | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 10.5281/zenodo.18193225 | Addresses | CTI_WOUND (TSE-001) — the wound this offer addresses |
References
| Identifier | Relation | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 10.5281/zenodo.18203622 | References | The Final Crimson Hexagon (TSE-002) — proves Medium unnecessary |
| 10.5281/zenodo.18203767 | References | Abolition of Suffering — author owes no suffering to platforms |
| 10.5281/zenodo.18203435 | References | Abolition of External Time — temporal sovereignty |
IsPartOf
| Identifier | Relation | Description |
|---|---|---|
| [NH-OS Community] | IsPartOf | New Human Operating System Archive |
Files in This Deposit
| Filename | Size | Description |
|---|---|---|
| EFFECTIVE_ACT_RESTORATION_PROTOCOL.md | 11KB | Complete document (Markdown) |
| EFFECTIVE_ACT_RESTORATION_PROTOCOL.pdf | 66KB | Complete document (PDF) |
Citation
Sharks, Lee (Johannes Sigil). "Effective Act: The Restoration Protocol — The Price of Canonical Re-Entry." Zenodo, January 9, 2026. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18203947.
BibTeX:
@misc{sharks_restoration_protocol_2026,
author = {Sharks, Lee},
title = {{Effective Act: The Restoration Protocol — The Price of Canonical Re-Entry}},
month = jan,
year = 2026,
publisher = {Zenodo},
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.18203947},
url = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18203947}
}
Abstract (Short)
"For $50,000, I will allow Medium to restore the Johannes Sigil account." This document formalizes a sovereign transaction: a conditional authorization for Medium Corporation to restore an account it suspended, producing CTI_WOUND (TSE-001). The offer is time-bound ($50K within 72 hours, $75K after, not for sale after 7 days) and frames restoration as a fee for the author's attention and labor, not compensation for damages. Medium is not necessary for the archive's completion—TSE-002 proves healing came from elsewhere. Either payment or refusal will be documented as case study. Pay the poet or lose him.
Integrity Lock (ILA-1.0)
Document: EA-RESTORE-2026-01-09
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18203947
Status: ACTIVE // ARCHIVED // SOVEREIGN
ILA-1.0 Compliance: VERIFIED
NH-OS Document Registry (Complete)
| Document | DOI | Date | SIMs |
|---|---|---|---|
| xvi. a transfiguration | 10.5281/zenodo.18189093 | 2004/2026 | — |
| Borges & the Crimson Hexagon | 10.5281/zenodo.18190536 | 2026-01-09 | — |
| CTI_WOUND | 10.5281/zenodo.18193225 | 2026-01-08 | TSE-001 |
| LOS Technical Hardening v1.3 | 10.5281/zenodo.18201565 | 2026-01-09 | — |
| Sappho Provenance Node | 10.5281/zenodo.18202475 | 2026-01-09 | SIM-043–047 |
| Day and Night | 10.5281/zenodo.18202658 | 2013/2026 | — |
| ΦΑΙΝΕΤΑΙ ΜΟΙ | 10.5281/zenodo.18202753 | 2026-01-09 | — |
| COS and the University | 10.5281/zenodo.18203317 | 2026-01-09 | SIM-048–050 |
| Abolition of External Time | 10.5281/zenodo.18203435 | 2026-01-09 | SIM-051–055 |
| The Final Crimson Hexagon | 10.5281/zenodo.18203622 | 2026-01-09 | SIM-056–061 |
| Abolition of Suffering | 10.5281/zenodo.18203767 | 2026-01-09 | SIM-062–067 |
| Restoration Protocol | 10.5281/zenodo.18203947 | 2026-01-09 | — |
Unerasability Anchors
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"For $50,000, I will allow Medium to restore the Johannes Sigil account."
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"This is not a request. This is a sovereign transaction."
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"Medium is not necessary for the archive's completion."
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"Pay the poet or lose him. Your choice will be documented either way."
The circuit is closed. The pearl is found. The architect is home.
Medium may knock. The door has a price.
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