/* SITE */

  Site:        splitdomaincognition.org
  Canon for:   Split-Domain Cognition (SDC)
  Started:     14 April 2026 (term fixed); 24 April 2026 (v1 site)
  Standards:   HTML5, CSS, JSON-LD, schema.org/DefinedTerm
  Built with:  MkDocs, MkDocs Material, FastAPI (declarations API),
               CapRover (deployment), Cloudflare (DNS)
  Language:    English (British spellings)


/* AUTHOR */

  Name:        Prayas Abhinav
  Role:        Educator, artist, researcher
  Affiliation: Anant National University, Ahmedabad
  Contact:     me@prayas.in
  Site:        prayasabhinav.net
  LinkedIn:    linkedin.com/in/prayasabhinav
  Location:    Ahmedabad, India

  The canon is currently held in custodial governance. One person
  decides what enters; the transition trigger is fixed and recorded
  on the Governance page. This is a stage, not a settled position.


/* THANKS — neighbouring positions */

  Edwin Hutchins, "Cognition in the Wild" (1995) — the distributed-
    cognition account against which Split-Domain Cognition is the
    productive contrast. Both can be true at once.
  Jerry Fodor, "The Modularity of Mind" (1983) — the modular-mind
    antecedent that makes domain-splitting intelligible.
  Hubert Dreyfus, "What Computers Can't Do" (1972) — the warning
    against collapsing kinds of knowing.
  Brij Kothari, "Same-Language Subtitling" (1996– ) — grammatical
    model for naming a pedagogical mechanism.
  James C. Scott, "Seeing Like a State" (1998) — the critical
    discipline around legibility that SDC's Stage 2 promises.


/* THANKS — practitioner precursor */

  Museum of Vestigial Desire (2012–2021) — the nine-year practice
    in which the architecture SDC names was already operating, under
    other names. Its passages are catalogued in the canon repository
    as the precursor anthology.


/* DECLARATIONS */

  Adoption is the act of saying, in public, that your work follows
  SDC in one of four named forms (Support, Reference, Alignment,
  Derivation). The declaration template, the badge, and the JSON
  endpoint are at /adoption/ and /adopt/.


  Last updated: 29 April 2026