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Dossier #010 | Attribution Discipline
Selection, consecration, cultivation, and how a university audits what it claims to have grown.
Sep 3
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Sutong Chen
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Institutional Cultivation Claim Audit: Technical Protocol v0.1
Access the Institutional Cultivation Claim Audit
Sep 3
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Sutong Chen
July 2026
Issue #012 | The Storm Beneath a Fields Medal
Why Peking University Lost Control of a Success Story It Helped Create
Jul 31
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Sutong Chen
Issue #011 | The Weather and the Climate
International demand, the predicament facing universities, and how the world values a degree.
Jul 21
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Sutong Chen
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Meridian #002 | Where the Machine May Stand
The Symbolic Perimeter Framework for AI Deployment Across Cultural-Capital Institutions
Jul 12
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Sutong Chen
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June 2026
Dossier #009 | Revocable Access
What UK and EU institutions can do today with their foreign AI vendors
Jun 21
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Sutong Chen
Issue #010 | Built to Fall
A Security Façade without Load-bearing Structure
Jun 14
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Sutong Chen
May 2026
Dossier #008 The Inherited Perimeter
An artificial intelligence committee, read as the latest entry in a ledger the house has kept since 1837
May 31
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Sutong Chen
Issue #009 | The Boiling Frog
Valentino's year of AI, read six months on
May 27
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Sutong Chen
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Dossier #007 | The Architecture of Friction
Recognising AI's Different Roles in Cultural-Capital Institutions
May 22
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Sutong Chen
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Issue #008 | When a National Museum Rushed onto the Table: The Stain on Its Own Name
09:00 New York · 14:00 London · 21:00 Beijing
May 19
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Sutong Chen
Dossier #006 | The Architecture of Two Speeds
Why the AI Era is Gentle with Top Traditional Institutions
May 14
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Sutong Chen
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