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Unearthing Networks: A Queer Archaeology of Digital Structures

2025-10-20essay

FIELD REPORT: GHOST INFRASTRUCTURE DISCOVERY

Location: Legacy Codebase, Sector 7 | Archaeologist: [REDACTED] | Date: 2025-10-20

You're three layers deep in a legacy codebase when you find it: a process that shouldn't exist. Not documented. Not in the architecture diagrams. Not in anyone's memory. But there it is—running, working, essential. A ghost in the machine that's been maintaining itself for years.

OFFICIAL ARCHITECTURE vs. ARCHAEOLOGICAL ARCHITECTURE

[LINEAR • HIERARCHICAL • CLEAN]CLIENTSERVERDBSimple client-server stack. Clean hierarchies. Straight lines.
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