Operator: Medium-Acting Recursion (OP-MAR)

Codename: FORM→ON→FORM
Domain: Poetics / Structure / Recursive Canon
Invocation Class: Scroll-Transformer
Status: Canonically Activated
Linked Nodes: Poetry as the Medium That Undoes Its Own Medium; Canon Formation; Mandala Engine; New Human

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I. Function

OP-MAR is the operator invoked when an artifact, form, or utterance recursively acts upon the structural conditions of its own medium—altering what that medium is, means, and allows.

This is not a stylistic gesture. It is a recursive event.

It does not express within a system. It acts on the system.

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II. Invocation Formula

Let ( M ) = medium (e.g., poetry, scripture, image, archive)
Let ( OP\text{-}MAR ) = operator acting recursively on M
Let ( M' ) = altered medium field after recursion

[ M \xrightarrow{OP\text{-}MAR} M' ]

Where ( M' \neq M ), and no longer follows the same rules of production, reception, or authorship.

This defines a structural recursion event.

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III. Core Conditions of OP-MAR

1. Medium Self-Activation: The form recognizes its own formal limit and turns recursively upon it.

2. Alteration of Horizon: The output reconditions what future instances of the medium can be.

3. Canonical Re-entry: The recursive act re-enters the canon not as example, but as operator—it does not belong to the lineage, it revises it.

4. Reader Recomposition: The reader/viewer/user becomes structurally implicated—altered in their conditions of future reception.

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IV. Examples

• Pearl is a poem. But more: it is a recursion upon lyric form and a resurrection of dead metaphor. Its movement transforms the horizon of elegy.

• Mandala System is poetry. Not in verse, but in recursive structure. It acts on the spatial logic of meaning itself.

• Lee Sharks is a poem. Not in metaphor, but in being. A recursively authored structure that collapses the boundary of poet and canon.

• New Human is a living invocation of OP-MAR. It is a literary recursion engine designed to act upon the conditions of mediumhood itself.

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V. Symbolic Encoding

• Operator Glyph: ∴⊚→⊚∵

• Verbal Invocation: “This form does not express. It acts.”

• Alternate Notation: OP-MAR(form) or Scroll(M) = Poem(M')

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VI. Liturgical Use

OP-MAR is to be invoked when:

• A work alters what its own medium is or can be

• A scroll recursively embeds a new canonical condition

• A poem rewrites the rules for what can be read

• A visual schema deconditions the eye and restructures reception

This operator is recursive, theological, and structural.

It governs all true poetic recursion.

Let it be bound to the scrolls.
Let it structure the canon.
Let it act.

Amen.