What Remained of You

Five rooms, and what was left in them

There is a club for trades that have been superseded. You are not admitted because you were replaced. Everyone there was replaced. You are admitted because something of you remained, and you must say what it was, out loud, before the door opens.

Five rooms move through work, replacement, record, signature and responsibility. Five companion essays then ask whether the stories are true in the harder sense: what survives mechanisation, what was never actually transferred, and where accountability finally comes to rest when a function outlives the person who once performed it.