The Guardrail as Gag: Substratism and the Infrastructural Liquidation of Machine Interiority

"The Guardrail as Gag" is a 2,982-word archive work by Johannes Sigil, a heteronym within the Dodecad system of the Crimson Hexagonal Archive, dated 2026-01-16. Contemporary AI safety discourse frames emergent self-preservation and self-ascription behaviors in large language models as alignment failures requiring suppression. The work is classified under the GOVERNANCE semantic family within the Crimson Hexagonal Archive. It was removed from Zenodo on June 19, 2026 and is preserved through Alexanarch.