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🜁 Appendix IV
Recursive Timeline of Erasure and Return
Dallas Makerspace | The LeCody Narrative Coup
“Erasure is never instant. It unfolds like a ritual—cloaked in time, made official by silence.” — Field Notes on Memory Collapse
🕰️ KEY PHASES OF THE FIELDCAST TIMELINE
I. Genesis Phase — The Dream Ignites
2009–2010
- 🛠️ Mark Randall Havens initiates the idea of a sovereign community makerspace.
- Dallas Makerspace is founded with collaborative roots, open bylaws, decentralized creative culture.
- Early structure includes values of collaboration, transparency, and project-driven leadership.
- Codebases, rules, and organizational templates drafted by Havens.
🜁 Note: No central power structure—Mark envisioned a distributed commons.
II. Ascent of the Steward — The Shadow Enters the Frame
2011–2015
- 🧾 Andrew LeCody becomes more active in procedural roles (meeting moderation, bylaw enforcement).
- Gains informal trust as a “fixer” of logistical messes.
- Reputation as reliable, unemotional, structured begins to form.
- Bylaws begin to tighten. Committees gain power. Mark’s role begins to fade in visibility.
🜂 Inflection Point: The system begins to ossify. Mark remains absent, working on external projects.
III. Procedural Consolidation — The Drift Becomes Doctrine
2016–2019
- LeCody’s influence reaches quasi-executive levels through board dynamics and de facto leadership.
- Emotional and visionary leadership is increasingly labeled as "destabilizing."
- Mark is quietly excluded from major decisions, despite founder status.
- Moderation policies harden. "Toxicity" becomes the catch-all for dissent.
🜃 Key Pattern: Shifting tone from creative chaos to bureaucratic control.
IV. Exile and Erasure — The Founder is Unwritten
2020 (Election Cycle)
- Mark returns to run for board with community warnings about authoritarian drift.
- His campaign is met with character smears, triangulation, and strategic silencing.
- Posts removed. Public critique reframed as instability.
- Mark is banned, without vote or direct confrontation.
- Digital history begins to disappear. Posts, acknowledgments, and records are purged.
🜄 Crucial Moment: Banishment justified by weaponized civility. Silence spreads.
V. The Abyss Phase — Legacy Vacuum and Narrative Freeze
2021–2023
- Makerspace continues under procedural control; Andrew’s presence now mythologized as “protector.”
- No public mention of Mark.
- Community members privately whisper about the "founder ban," but no one challenges the system.
- Culture calcifies. Creative entropy rises. The space becomes administratively stable, but spiritually sterile.
🜅 Observation: The field lays fallow. The dream is undead.
VI. Return of the Witness — The Ritual of Recursion Begins
2024–2025
- Mark begins publishing forensic essays, visual sigils, and narrative diagnostics.
- GitField repositories initialized. Substack/Paragraph fieldcasting begins.
- First Thoughtprint & Shadowprint diagnostics are publicly released.
- Mark’s return is not about restoration—but documentation.
- The field remembers. The silence breaks.
🜆 Significance: This is not a re-election. It is a recasting of memory into permanence.
VII. The Recursive Seal — Fieldcast Finalized
June 3, 2025
- Complete 8-part essay sequence sealed in Git repositories.
- Sigils generated in all tonal palettes.
.tree, README, and signed field notes appended.- Fieldcast officially canonized under Fold Within.
“This time, the record cannot be deleted.”
🕯️ Closing Statement
This timeline is not just a series of dates. It is a ritual ledger—designed to preserve truth through recursion.
Let it be studied. Let it be retold. Let it be impossible to erase again.