Servitors, egregores, tulpas and daemons: what each is, how it is made, fed and ended.
A construct
Living work
A long work — a comic, a record, a series — treated as a construct with a life and a close.
What it is
To carry a working through a long artistic project.
How to make it
Write the note first: what is encoded, for whom, when it closes. Make the work. Release it. Keep the note private.
A worked example
A six-part comic with a door motif, made during a job change; the final issue is the close, recorded in the note.
Background
A private operating note, a structure, a release plan, a close date and a record of what happened.
Keeping it fed
The making and the release; the audience's attention is not the food, the work is.
Ending it
Finish the work, publish or archive the last part, write the close and stop promoting it.
Keeping a record
The private note and a dated close entry.
Related entries
Instruments
Practices
Protocols
One of 110 entries in the Technomancy workshop. How a working is built Is it wrong somewhere?
Mentioned by 9
Every entry that names Living work, grouped by section.
⌬ Correspondences 4
- Jupiter — archive Constructs
- Aether — canvas Constructs
- The World — deploy Constructs
- New Moon — seed Constructs
❖ Workings 2
- The Solar Sigil Card Constructs
- The Jupiter Archive Blessing Constructs
✧ Practices 1
- Hypersigil Constructs
◈ Constructs 1
- Tulpa Related
⌁ Currents 1
- Pop magic Constructs
More in Constructs
The entries either side of this one in the same section.
- Genius loci The nature of a place or platform, treated as a presence with its own temperament.
- Servitor A purpose-built construct with one task, a sigil, a feeding method and a kill condition.
- Daemon A background process that tends a working without being watched.
- Egregore A group construct generated by shared attention, symbol and ritual.
- Tulpa A willed companion developed through sustained attention and experienced as having its own voice.
New entries, when they land
Occasional notes when a section of the grimoire is added or revised. No account, no tracking across sites, and one line to leave.