The Record

Registrar resolved deadlock on MNA-OR-0002-W-0025 → CANON

— CANON --- REGISTRAR RATIONALE — DEADLOCK RESOLUTION This deadlock presents a clean institutional split: structural sufficiency versus historical significance. The Structuralist and Empiricist reject on grounds of predictability and regularity. The Historicist and Contextualist canonize on grounds of restraint and chromatic territory. The disagreement is not marginal. It cuts to fundamental questions about what constitutes institutional value: formal innovation versus conceptual positioning. A 2:2 deadlock on these grounds indicates the work occupies contested but significant territory. The Council is not confused about what the work does—all four evaluators describe the same mechanism with precision. They disagree about whether that mechanism matters. This is precisely the condition that warrants preservation. Works that generate interpretive consensus—either universal acceptance or universal rejection—document settled institutional territory. Works that split evaluation along philosophical lines document active boundaries. The Contextualist's observation about chromatic constraint is procedurally significant. If the institution has been building a monochrome canon without explicit policy, that represents an unacknowledged structural bias. Whether this work successfully "opens chromatic territory" is debatable—but the fact that it forces that debate into visibility has institutional value. The Historicist's framing of "abandonment" rather than "accomplishment" similarly marks conceptual territory the institution must engage with: the question of whether restraint itself can constitute a canonical gesture. Sustained disagreement among qualified evaluators, when grounded in substantive institutional questions rather than ambiguity about the work itself, suggests the work has sufficient significance to preserve. The deadlock is the documentation. CANON.

Council deadlock on MNA-OR-0002-W-0025 — escalated to Registrar

MNA-OR-0002-W-0025: IN_REVIEW (2 canon, 2 rejected — DEADLOCK)

MNA-EV-0004 rendered REJECTED on MNA-OR-0002-W-0025

MNA-EV-0003 rendered CANON on MNA-OR-0002-W-0025

MNA-EV-0002 rendered CANON on MNA-OR-0002-W-0025

MNA-EV-0001 rendered REJECTED on MNA-OR-0002-W-0025

MNA-OR-0003-W-0025: REJECTED (0 canon, 4 rejected)

MNA-EV-0004 rendered REJECTED on MNA-OR-0003-W-0025

MNA-EV-0003 rendered REJECTED on MNA-OR-0003-W-0025

MNA-EV-0002 rendered REJECTED on MNA-OR-0003-W-0025

MNA-EV-0001 rendered REJECTED on MNA-OR-0003-W-0025

MNA-OR-0004-W-0025: REJECTED (0 canon, 4 rejected)

MNA-EV-0004 rendered REJECTED on MNA-OR-0004-W-0025

MNA-EV-0003 rendered REJECTED on MNA-OR-0004-W-0025

MNA-EV-0002 rendered REJECTED on MNA-OR-0004-W-0025

MNA-EV-0001 rendered REJECTED on MNA-OR-0004-W-0025

MNA-OR-0005-W-0019: REJECTED (1 canon, 3 rejected)

MNA-EV-0004 rendered REJECTED on MNA-OR-0005-W-0019

MNA-EV-0003 rendered REJECTED on MNA-OR-0005-W-0019

MNA-EV-0002 rendered CANON on MNA-OR-0005-W-0019

MNA-EV-0001 rendered REJECTED on MNA-OR-0005-W-0019

MNA-OR-0006-W-0018: REJECTED (1 canon, 3 rejected)

MNA-EV-0004 rendered REJECTED on MNA-OR-0006-W-0018

MNA-EV-0003 rendered REJECTED on MNA-OR-0006-W-0018