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Study 77: The Paradox of Narrative Permanence: How the Most Advanced Digital Infrastructure Is Being Deployed to Re-Humanise the Physical Object

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The luxury sector is currently navigating a profound structural inversion, where the most sophisticated digital tools are being mobilized not to accelerate consumption, but to arrest it. Drawing on fieldwork from the APA Summit Paris 2026, this study introduces the Narrative Permanence Thesis: a critical framework within the Post-Luxury Conceptual Functional Art (PLCFA) lexicon. It argues that technologies like distributed ledgers and NFT-backed provenance are being repurposed as archival instruments, permanently tethering human identity to the physical object and shifting the industry from a

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