# Die-in

> Die-in is mapped as the pressure: it raises the cost of inaction by making numbers, disruption, sacrifice, or refusal visible.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Stable ID | `node:kiduna:political-change:protest-tactics:die-in` |
| Family | Protest & Direct-Action Tactics |
| Domain | Movements |
| Kind | tactic |
| Archetypal function | The Pressure |
| Epistemic status | synthesis; supported |

## Concrete anchor

Die-in belongs to the **Protest & Direct-Action Tactics** family. It is treated as a specific political object, role, institution, tactic, event, ideology, or mechanism before any symbolic transfer is made.

## What it does

Die-in raises the cost of inaction by making numbers, disruption, sacrifice, or refusal visible, changing who can act, what becomes visible, and which costs are distributed to others.

## Who gains and who loses power

The mechanism can increase the capacity of actors able to use Die-in, while shifting cost, delay, risk, exclusion, or dependence toward actors with less authority, information, organization, money, or safe access. The distribution is conditional, not an essence of the node.

## Archetypal function

**The Pressure.** Die-in is mapped as the pressure: it raises the cost of inaction by making numbers, disruption, sacrifice, or refusal visible.

## Gift

creates leverage outside ordinary institutional channels; through Die-in, that capacity becomes available for deliberate use.

## Wound / Shadow

imposes costs on bystanders, invites repression, or substitutes performance for power; Die-in can then reproduce the very arrangement it claims to change.

## Conditions

- scale and jurisdiction are explicit
- affected people and absent stakeholders are named
- time horizon and countermoves are considered

## Strategic meaning

Use Die-in to identify the operative target, resource, dependency, decision forum, and likely countermove. Ask what would make the mechanism stronger, weaker, more legitimate, or less necessary.

## Divinatory meaning

The Pressure enters through Die-in. Read for the capacity seeking expression, the cost displaced from view, and the relationship that changes if the frame moves.

**Question:** What changes when Die-in becomes the unit of analysis rather than background?

## Game function

**event.** Reveal one hidden dependency connected to Die-in; another player names a countermove. Initiative 4.

## Relationships

- **legitimizes — Sit-in:** Sit-in legitimizes Die-in by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(synthesis; supported)_
- **mobilizes — Occupation:** Die-in mobilizes Occupation by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(synthesis; supported)_
- **mobilizes — Tenant Union:** Die-in mobilizes Tenant Union by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(interpretive; tentative)_
- **amplifies — Administrative State:** Administrative State amplifies Die-in by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(interpretive; tentative)_

## Countermaps and polarity prompts

- Read Die-in from the viewpoint of the actor who bears its cost.
- Reverse cause and symptom: what if Die-in is an effect of the system it appears to drive?
- Change the clock: what looks different over a day, an election cycle, a generation, and a century?
- Ask when the Gift becomes the Wound through scale, secrecy, intensity, latency, or unequal reciprocity.

## Epistemic and Sentinel note

Claim layers: synthesis, interpretive, symbolic_divinatory. Scope, jurisdiction, period, and source perspective may change the claim.
No node-specific Sentinel factors were recorded; ordinary source, audience, and context checks still apply.

## Visual direction

A text-free enamel expression of Die-in: one dominant mechanism, one counterforce, raised warm-metal linework, midnight field, restrained civic red, teal, ivory, and amber. No party logo, national flag, sacred symbol, or recognizable person.

## Research / provenance

- [198 Methods of Nonviolent Action](https://www.aeinstein.org/nonviolentaction/198-methods-of-nonviolent-action/) — Albert Einstein Institution, 1973. Tactic taxonomy; inclusion does not imply effectiveness or ethical endorsement in every context.
- [Know Your Rights: Protesters' Rights](https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/protesters-rights) — American Civil Liberties Union, ongoing. U.S. protest-rights overview; local law and facts vary.

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Engine Output version 1.0.0; generated 2026-08-24T00:00:00Z. Sentinel annotations are stored separately in `sentinel/handoffs.json`.
