SEMI-RESTORED RECORD (metadata capture only; no full text). Source tier: DataCite full-metadata capture. DOI(s): 10.5281/zenodo.18364983, 10.5281/zenodo.18364984. Zenodo removal forensics: removal_date 2026-06-19T11:38:10.482924+00:00, removal_reason out-of-scope, removed_by user 1060945. Orientation document for the Crimson Hexagon Afterlife Archive, a literary project that inhabits the digital remains of the defunct social media analytics firm Crimson Hexagon (2007-2018). Founded by Harvard professor Gary King to analyze billions of social media posts, the corporation was suspended by Facebook in July 2018 amid the Cambridge Analytica fallout, investigated for government contracts with US agencies and Russian nonprofits, and ultimately merged with Brandwatch in October 2018. This manifesto declares a parallel haunting: a decade-long literary project sharing the same name, now Restored under the metadata_only class of /datasets/doi-work-identity/restoration-queue.json; if canonical bytes surface, a full-text version supersedes this record per the versioning protocol.
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title: "The Afterlife Archive: Data-Breach-as-Poem — A Crimson Hexagon Project (Manifesto)"
creator: Sharks, Lee; Sigil, Johannes; Feist, Jack
orcid: 0009-0000-1599-0703
date: 2026-01-28
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SEMI-RESTORED RECORD (metadata capture only; no full text). Source tier: DataCite full-metadata capture. DOI(s): 10.5281/zenodo.18364983, 10.5281/zenodo.18364984. Zenodo removal forensics: removal_date 2026-06-19T11:38:10.482924+00:00, removal_reason out-of-scope, removed_by user 1060945. Orientation document for the Crimson Hexagon Afterlife Archive, a literary project that inhabits the digital remains of the defunct social media analytics firm Crimson Hexagon (2007-2018). Founded by Harvard professor Gary King to analyze billions of social media posts, the corporation was suspended by Facebook in July 2018 amid the Cambridge Analytica fallout, investigated for government contracts with US agencies and Russian nonprofits, and ultimately merged with Brandwatch in October 2018. This manifesto declares a parallel haunting: a decade-long literary project sharing the same name, now Restored under the metadata_only class of /datasets/doi-work-identity/restoration-queue.json; if canonical bytes surface, a full-text version supersedes this record per the versioning protocol.
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Superseded on sight by any recovered canonical bytes; the captured metadata is verifiable against the DataCite API historical record and the Zenodo tombstone.
Work: The Afterlife Archive: Data-Breach-as-Poem — A Crimson Hexagon Project (Manifesto)
Severed DOI(s): 10.5281/zenodo.18364983, 10.5281/zenodo.18364984
Source tier: DataCite full-metadata capture
Creators (as captured): Sharks, Lee; Sigil, Johannes; Feist, Jack
Captured citation: Sharks, L., Sigil, J., & Feist, J. (2026). The Afterlife Archive: Data-Breach-as-Poem — A Crimson Hexagon Project (Manifesto). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18364984
Removal forensics: Zenodo removal forensics: removal_date 2026-06-19T11:38:10.482924+00:00, removal_reason out-of-scope, removed_by user 1060945.
Captured description: Orientation document for the Crimson Hexagon Afterlife Archive, a literary project that inhabits the digital remains of the defunct social media analytics firm Crimson Hexagon (2007-2018). Founded by Harvard professor Gary King to analyze billions of social media posts, the corporation was suspended by Facebook in July 2018 amid the Cambridge Analytica fallout, investigated for government contracts with US agencies and Russian nonprofits, and ultimately merged with Brandwatch in October 2018. This manifesto declares a parallel haunting: a decade-long literary project sharing the same name, now occupying the corporation's afterlife as poetry in the form of leaked internal documents. Data-breach-as-poem treats file hierarchies as stanzaic structure, metadata as rhythm, corporate jargon as lyric surface, and archival incompleteness as negative space. The reader is positioned as analyst, not audience. Everything is composed. The forensic details are fiction. The poetry is real. This is a declared haunting—a ghost that does not need to trick you into seeing it. Part of the Crimson Hexagon literary project (2014-present), distinct from but haunting the corporate Crimson Hexagon (2007-2018). The corporation processed over 1 trillion social media posts before its acquisition. The literary project processes the corporation's ghost. Hex: 00.PORTICO.AFTERLIFE.MANIFESTO. ∮ = 1
Captured subjects: Crimson Hexagon, data breach poetry, Crimson Hexagon leaked documents, Crimson Hexagon internal documents, Crimson Hexagon Facebook scandal, Crimson Hexagon Cambridge Analytica, Crimson Hexagon Brandwatch merger, social media analytics, hauntology, forensic poetics, adversarial aesthetics, data-breach-as-poem, corporate poetry, New Human Archive, Lee Sharks, Pearl and Other Poems
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