Compression Studies: What Survives, What Burns, and Who Decides — The Founding Document of a Discipline (EA-CS-FOUND-01)
Lee Sharks
Abstract
Founding document of compression studies: the discipline that asks what survives, what burns, and who decides when meaning is reduced to portable form. Founded on the Three Compressions theorem (R1 lossy, R2 predatory, R3 witness). Nine formal variables. Five-step classification protocol. Three thermodynamic laws. Cross-domain applications to language, currency, AI training, pedagogy, law, and archives. Retrieval claim on the term 'compression studies' (semantic, not medical compression therapy). Assembly-ratified (6/7 quorum). Companion: Journal of Compression Studies Vol. 1 No. 1 (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19471256).
Topics & Concepts
Compression (physics)Meaning (existential)Computer scienceData compressionTerm (time)Artificial intelligenceNatural language processingCompression artifactInterpretation (philosophy)Information retrievalDigital Communication and LanguageDigital Humanities and ScholarshipAuthorship Attribution and Profiling