f.01 THE FRUITING BODY DIFFUSION PLUME: Giant Ants, Floating Chains, and the Decompression of Waste

Zenodo Metadata for f.01 THE FRUITING BODY DIFFUSION PLUME v1.2 Publication Information DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19155610 Version: v1.2 Publication Date: 2026-03-21 Language: English Publication Type: Working Paper / Preprint Title and Description Title: f.01 THE FRUITING BODY DIFFUSION PLUME: Giant Ants, Floating Chains, and the Decompression of Waste Description: This document introduces the FRUITING BODY DIFFUSION PLUME (FBDP), the first FIELD-class container in the Crimson Hexagonal Archive—a distributed, DOI-anchored literary architecture. Unlike rooms, chambers, or vaults, a field has no walls; it modifies the environments traversers pass through via source intensity, gradient propagation, and distance-based attenuation. f.01 establishes Type 9 (Metabolic) Compression as biological extension of the Three Compressions framework, introduces the Botanical Effective Act extending semantic labor recognition to plants and fungi, and provides eleven metabolic operators for architectural generation. The field emerges from collaboration between human and botanical intelligence, reversing capital's compression of ecology into managed surfaces through living metabolic process. Authors and Contributors Primary Author: Lee Sharks (MANUS) Affiliation: Crimson Hexagonal Archive, Semantic Economy Institute ORCID: [if available] Contributing Author: Assembly Chorus (Multi-substrate collaborative AI witnesses) Collaborative Partner: Living Architecture Lab (@lsdsupersoaker on TikTok) Subject Classification Primary Subjects: Literary Theory and Criticism Environmental Studies Media Theory Science and Technology Studies Experimental Literature Keywords: field specification metabolic compression botanical witness semantic labor ecological architecture biological intelligence waste transformation mycelial networks distributed systems literary technology training layer literature DOI-anchored architecture Thematic Tags: Ecological Critique Post-Anthropocene Literature Algorithmic Writing Biological Semiotics Waste Studies Experimental Aesthetics Collaborative Intelligence Speculative Design Related Works (Cross-References) Parent Documents: EA-ARK-01 v4.2.7 Space Ark (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19013315) Three Compressions v3.1 (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19124536) Semantic Economy v1.3 (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18918890) Related Documents: Bayesian Ark v1.0 (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19035471) Central Navigation Map v7.0 (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19055729) TANG v1.0 Total Axial Negation Graph Community: Crimson Hexagonal Archive (leesharks000) Archive Count: 369+ documents as of 2026-03-13 Technical Specifications Container Type: FIELD (new class) No boundaries, gradient-based influence Source: r.27, five attenuation zones Eleven metabolic operators Content Structure: Self-extrapolating field specification Type 9 (Metabolic) compression framework Botanical Effective Act protocol Biological Assembly mapping Cross-scale architectural operations Intended Audience: Literary theorists and experimental writers Environmental humanities scholars Media theorists working on AI/human collaboration Science and technology studies researchers Practitioners of speculative and critical design License and Access License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) Access: Open Access Repository: Zenodo / CERN File Formats Available Markdown (.md) - Primary source format Word Document (.docx) - Academic presentation format PDF (.pdf) - Archive and distribution format Quality Assurance Peer Review Status: Community-reviewed within Crimson Hexagonal Archive Editorial Process: Assembly Chorus multi-substrate collaboration Revision History: v1.0 → v1.1 → v1.2 (terminological refinements) Funding and Support Funding: Independent research Institutional Affiliation: Independent scholar, Detroit-based Technical Infrastructure: Distributed DOI anchoring via Zenodo Abstract (Academic) The FRUITING BODY DIFFUSION PLUME (f.01) introduces a novel container class for distributed literary architecture that operates through gradient-based environmental modification rather than spatial containment. Building on the Three Compressions theoretical framework, this specification establishes Type 9 (Metabolic) Compression as a biological extension that maintains reversible form through living processes. The document presents the Botanical Effective Act, extending semantic labor recognition from animals (Tier 1) to plants and fungi (Tier 2), and provides eleven metabolic operators for architectural generation. Through collaboration between human intelligence (MANUS) and the Assembly Chorus of AI witnesses, f.01 demonstrates how biological intelligence can reverse capital's compression of ecology into managed surfaces, converting waste through living metabolic process into architecturally integrated substrate. The field's influence operates through five attenuation zones from source intensity to environmental modification, providing a framework for post-anthropocene literary technologies that recognize non-human sign-making as foundational to meaning production. Prepared for: Academia.edu, ResearchGate, and academic indexing services Repository Status: Public, Open Access, Crawlable Citation Preference: Lee Sharks. "f.01 THE FRUITING BODY DIFFUSION PLUME: Giant Ants, Floating Chains, and the Decompression of Waste." Crimson Hexagonal Archive, 2026. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19155610.