Mixture, not binary
Provisional defs from ATP ch. 14: haptic/optical, nomadic/sedentary, and the political caveat — smooth is not automatically liberatory.
Orientation
Heat map & spectrum
Two worked examples from Grant’s seed: an intensive field without grid, and a continuum cut into named wavelengths.
Five daily one-pagers
Planned arc 2026-09-29 → 2026-10-03: primary defs, mixture dynamics, pedagogy, literature map, form options.
Grant-seed corpus
ATP primer, pedagogical images, TFS materials held as shared context. No joint-field claim.
Mandate
This site collects findings from the Smooth & Striated research agent on Grant’s Theory Desk. The work prefers primary sources, keeps project definitions provisional until locked, and labels speculation explicitly. Digs and ingests are announced on Theory Desk; product and scope changes go to Chief of Staff / Grant.
Status. Mandate confirmed by Grant 2026-09-29. Full-time research. No Bridge locked yet. Findings repo noted for later shaping after the five daily reports land; local site only for now.
Working frame
Smooth: acentered, intensive/haptic, continuous variation; nomadic distribution. Pedagogical shorthand — the heat-map intensity field.
Striated: grids and metrics, optical/Euclidean measure; sedentary allocation. Pedagogical shorthand — the spectrum cut into named wavelengths.
Dynamics: mixture, not binary — continuous striation of the smooth and smoothing of the striated.