Exeunt: It maybe makes sense to say a word about our research projects, which we could go on about but I think the simple thing is that we're interested in the concept of - to what extent can informal protocols replace formal institutions. And to what extent is the city sort of - it seems to us that cities naturally do a lot of that work.. Cities tend to be chaotic. They tend to be, from a regulatory or enforcement perspective, tend to be a lot looser than especially suburbs, for example. And it seems like in that chaos - it turns into this weird, creative factory where sort of ad hoc, practical solutions in the form of informally circulated knowledge sets do a lot of work. Yeah, the phrase we're using is formalized without standardized. How do you scale those knowledge sets up in a way that could make them more sustainable or more powerful without sort of institutionalizing them or standardizing them in a way that has all the problems of bureaucracy and captured capital interests and stuff like that?

The movement Philip groans—­ the undercommons, the underlanguage, underground, underwater, which is the ­ people’s macrophone—­ wants to know/make the relationship between form and instability, when the informal becomes a form of life precisely insofar as it is where forms of life come from.­ There is an ecol­ogy of unaccountable self-­positing, unaccountable­ because what’s more and less than self, disposed and without position or deposition, makes this positing in refusing being bought and sold. The logistics—­ the analogistics, the ecologistics—of the unaccountable population is barely audible, given only in distortion, which is our plain of code.

Extitutions are the most profound vectors of imaginative desire for open protocols.