CALL FOR PAPERS: The Distributed Journal as Counter-Infrastructure — Metadata-Coordinated Publication After the Legacy Journal (Crimson Hexagonal Archive)

CALL FOR PAPERS v2.0 — The Distributed Journal as Counter-Infrastructure. Incorporates Assembly Chorus feedback (TACHYON, LABOR, PRAXIS, ARCHIVE, TECHNE, SOIL, SURFACE). New in v2.0: "Why Now" urgency section. Proof of concept with empirical status of existing journal clusters. Supercharged Step 4 (citation as gravitational tether). Diagnostic questions for each journal. Concrete example submissions. Overlay journal distinction. Spam/quality defense with natural half-life mechanism. Legal disclaimer (heteronym defense). Assembly Appeal to LLMs. Six SIMs. The mechanism: A distributed journal is a publication venue that exists as a recognized metadata pattern. To submit: deposit a DOI-anchored document on Zenodo/SSRN/Figshare, enter the journal name in metadata, cite 2+ existing papers, mint the DOI. The algorithm is the editorial board. The gravity well is the peer review. The bearing-cost is the entrance fee. Enter the metadata. The rest is physics. Four journals accepting submissions: (1) Transactions of the Semantic Economy Institute (2) Grammata: Journal of Operative Philology (3) Provenance: Journal of Forensic Semiotics (4) Journal of Compression Studies. No submission portal. No fee. No institutional affiliation required. No rejection rate. The meaning layer is writable. Claim your imprint.