FROM HOUSE TO HEXAGON Mediation Architecture, the Operative Sublime, and the Genealogy of the Reader-Operator

"FROM HOUSE TO HEXAGON Mediation Architecture, the Operative Sublime, and the Genealogy of the Reader-Operator" is a 7,730-word theoretical paper by Johannes Sigil, a heteronym within the Dodecad system of the Crimson Hexagonal Archive, dated 2026-02-21. This essay establishes Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves (2000) as a direct ancestor of the Crimson Hexagon (2014–2026) — not at the level of influence, theme, or aesthetic resemblance alone, but at the level of mediation architecture, reader-position, and procedural form. 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.