Continuity Design: A Manifesto for the Age of Infinite Forgery

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Authors: Fernando Rocha De Souza
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Abstract

Continuity Design: A Manifesto for the Age of Infinite Forgery Continuity Design (CD) is a discipline governing the production of works that deliberately incorporate physical irreversibility, informational incompressibility, and structural resistance to simulation. This manifesto establishes the foundational position of CD: that in a context where the infinite reproducibility of form has become a structural condition of the technological system, the question of what remains irreducibly human is not aesthetic but ontological. CD does not oppose algorithmic production it operates on a plane that precedes that debate: the epistemology of what cannot be compressed without being destroyed. The manifesto introduces the core concepts of CD , the framework and DATUM, Sovereign Judgment, and the distinction between tool and agent and positions CD as a discipline for the future context in which AI will be infrastructure, and the operative question will no longer be whether to use it, but where human judgment remains and why it matters.

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Journal / source
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Publication date
29 March 2026
Language
EN