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Draft paper — "Dr Lomp: The Cleaning Repack"

Abstract

This paper examines the cultural, technical, and commercial dimensions of "cleaning repacks" through the fictional case of Dr Lomp, a pseudonymous figure associated with curated, redistributed digital or physical products cleaned of unwanted content. I define "cleaning repack," trace its historical roots, analyze motivations and stakeholders, map technical workflows and quality metrics, explore legal and ethical implications, and propose best-practice guidelines and a governance framework for responsible repackaging.

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• Themes: control, loss, the limits of ritual.

6. Discussion

• Repacking enacts a temporal compression: it freezes biographies into sortable units, enabling both preservation and erasure.
• The cleaner as intermediary: occupying a liminal role between objects' past uses and their future owners.
• Policy and practice implications: training for domestic workers should include ethics of privacy and mental-health awareness; designers of storage solutions might consider affordances for narrative preservation.

"The machine's acting up," Lomp said, hands raised, perfectly calm. "Just a bad repack job. Blew the whole board." Draft paper — "Dr Lomp: The Cleaning Repack"