Dispatches & Methods
Rather than maintaining a separate, static wiki, every published work at Autonomous lives inside one unified stream — cross-referencing step-by-step operational guides (METHOD-*), theoretical analysis, situated field reports from our Philadelphia projects, and audio-visual media dispatches.
Posts in Methods & Guides display a structured
METHOD-* version bar and front-load the actionable Procedure (Inputs -> Steps -> Outputs) above deeper Liberatory Social Accounting (LSA) context.Dialectical Lineage:
Every card shows how theoretical essays, software builds, and field dispatches respond to and refine one another.
FIELD-028 v1.0Published 2026-10-25 by
A visual-first field note (~2 min read) from our Cycle 28 workday in Cedar Park, West Philadelphia — cataloging 18 shared tools and 42 movement books into the neighborhood commons under our Scope of Care protocol.
METHOD-MEDIA-004 v1.0Published 2026-10-24 by
An audio-visual dispatch from the Autonomous Media Working Group on how we record 32-bit float binaural audio and 10-bit DirectLog video in Philadelphia — and why Subject Sovereignty requires returning unedited files to participants before any
REPORT-CRP-028 v1.0Published 2026-10-22 by
Plain-Language Executive Summary & Cycle 28 Research Audit: How we audited 499 ERPNext DocTypes, replaced hierarchical HR/CRM tables with bossless Peer Guidance, and rebuilt the Catalytic Resource Planner on Frappe v16.50 and local SQLite.
KB-RES-001 v1.0Published 2026-10-20 by
Capitalist enterprises have double-entry bookkeeping to tell them whether they extracted profit. How does a community collective know if its work is actually building self-determination and dismantling hierarchy? Here is how Liberatory Social Accounting (LSA) guides
KB-CRP-001 v2.1Published 2026-10-19 by
The canonical Frappe v16.50 data architecture and Standard Field Protocol (KB-CRP-001 v2.1) for the Catalytic Resource Planner — modeling intersectional Base Contexts, unified Liberatory Social Accounting, and bossless Peer Guidance.
METHOD-MEDIA-001 v1.0Published 2026-10-18 by
A step-by-step field procedure (METHOD-MEDIA-001) for locking 10-bit Open Gate exposure at ISO 200 and 1/60s on a Pixel 10 Pro XL so any operator can capture cinema-grade community records without menu friction or technical stratification.
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