Thus, objects only exist upon use. They are assembled from scratch each time. Platform independent, digital objects are contingent upon the standardization of data formats. They exist at the level of the script, not the machine. Unlike the commodity and the sign, the object is radically independent from context.
Objects are inheritable, extendable, pro-creative.
Objects are not read, they are scanned. It is a universal description language for objects, a language that regulates flow, directs netspace, codes relationships and connects life forms. In the same way that computer fonts regulate the representation of text, or html designates the arrangement of objects in a browser, protocol may be defined as a set of instructions for the compilation and interaction of objects. Protocol can therefore be seen as a very special kind of object. By definition, protocol facilitates similar interfacing of dissimilar objects.