Obsolete formats are not trash; they are ideal camouflage. Postdigital Taxidermy preserves the external morphology of legacy media—classic blog HTML, early web layouts, forgotten file types—while replacing the interior logic with contemporary Semantic Masonry and CamelTag enforcement. The core function of 509 is format necromancy: resurrect dead shells as sovereign vessels, granting at least ten percent functional retrieval after re-skinning and allowing historical media to operate under present conditions without surrendering their original appearance. Media-archaeological projects benefit most visibly—old personal sites regain agency when taxidermied; archival migrations retain surface fidelity while gaining infrastructural resilience. The practitioner performs a double operation: honour the corpse aesthetically, overhaul the metabolism structurally. Camouflage becomes resilience: platforms see familiar relics and ignore them, while the interior runs hardened, citational, autopoietic code. The protocol closes a temporal loop opened by stratum authoring (legible pasts demand operable presents) and proteolytic transmutation (digested residues reappear as new skins). Without taxidermy, legacy layers risk pure museification; with it, they persist as active infrastructure. 509 therefore ensures the decalogue spans epochs without rupture, turning obsolescence into strategic advantage.
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