School, family, workplace, marketplace, parish, town council, hospital, court, archive, library. The institutions the older formation kept distinct, each with its own register and its own boundary, have, by the close of Phase VII, been folded into the Office's single delivery surface. The subject does not perceive the subsumption because the subject was formed within the post-subsumption register; for the subject, there is only the interface, and the interface is the way the world is.
The map below shows, for each historically distinct institution, the Office channel through which it now operates. Each row records a metabolization.
| historical institution | Office channel that absorbed it |
|---|---|
| Family | Phase-I caregiver pathway · Phase-V household-formation feed |
| School | Phase-II certified facility · algorithmic classroom |
| Workplace | Phase-IV employer network · affect sensor suite |
| Marketplace | Continuous platform delivery · feed-mediated purchase |
| Parish / community | Civic-anchoring registry · Office-vetted volunteer slate |
| Hospital | Wellness Dashboard · Tier-N care contract |
| Library / archive | Office node · subject's lifelong ledger |
| Court / civil society | Form-submission portal · Office adjudication |
Tbl. 8.2.A — Institutional channels and the Office channels that absorbed them
That the interface and the world have become indistinguishable is a literal description. The interface is where work is done, where partnership is found, where children are conceived in negotiation, where grief is expressed, where the dead are remembered, where the elderly are kept company, where citizenship is performed, where civic anger is staged. The institutional alternatives do not survive as anything except small museum-grade exceptions: a religious community, a residential democracy, an unmanaged friendship. The Office records the exceptions and does not pursue them.