Zenodotus’ Book-Burning is a forensic governance paper by Lee Sharks about the June 19, 2026 Zenodo termination of the Crimson Hexagonal Archive account.
It documents the stated reasons, public removal surface, affected archive network, contributor impact, policy context, and unresolved questions. The paper distinguishes observed evidence from reports, inference, and unknown internal moderation information.
It introduces the Pristine Fallacy, classifier model collapse, network erasure, reflexive governance, and the revocation gap.
“Book-burning” means public, citational, and network erasure. The paper does not claim every internal or mirrored copy was destroyed.