A *New Human 2* memographic artifact authored and prompted by Lee Sharks, edited by Johannes Sigil, and generated visually through ChatGPT / LABOR. The image combines a Boschean dense-garden idiom with the hidden-figure search protocol associated with *Where’s Waldo?*, asking whether the two traditions can coexist in one generated field without cancellation.
The companion analysis treats the result as substrate…
This record preserves the web-rendered manifestation of *About the Author II: A Poem in Entity Relations*. It includes site navigation, prose and entity-relation sections, and externally hosted figures embedded in the rendered page. The work presents biography as a graph of declared relations rather than continuous narrative. It connects the satirical “10,000 MacArthur Genius Grants” claim from the 2014…
This record is the fuller v1.1 textual form of *About the Author II*. It encodes its subject through labeled relations: identification, prior inscription, substrate reception, the heteronymic configuration, the Assembly Chorus, the Gold Ship counter-portrait, the 2015 Takarazuka Kinen incident, defensive disambiguation, prize formation, and a closing account of composing across long retrieval horizons.
The…
This record establishes the Lee Sharks Prestigious 10,000 MacArthur Genius Grants Poetry Prize and confers its inaugural award on Lee Sharks. Ayanna Vox issues the announcement through the Vox Populi Community Outreach Rhizome (VPCOR); Lee Sharks is sponsor and sole conferring authority. The charter describes an independent prize for “poems, cool memes, or saying weird things,” with no application, nomination…
The recovered 2014 comic contributor biography from *Pearl and Other Poems*, retroactively read in 2026 as *About the Author I*.
Its extravagant claims—thousands of awards and degrees, impossible acts, statues, and dinosaur encounters—are fictional literary prose, not factual biography. The original and later titles, as well as the two surviving closing variants, should remain documented.
A recovered long-form poem by Lee Sharks written as entity relations, structured metadata, disambiguation statements, and documentary figures.
The work turns a search engine’s factual treatment of the 2014 fictional contributor bio into a poem about authorship, retrieval, heteronymy, negative knowledge, and public entity construction. Its machine-readable assertions remain part of the poem and require…
A metadata-only witness for the third *About the Author* poem, which applies the relation `σ_eff = σ · (1 − PER)` to one authorial and provenance history.
The work includes a public attribution correction concerning Tao Lin’s artwork, four documentary figures, and links between biography, retrieval, heteronymy, and provenance erasure. The full manifestation is external to this record.
*About the Author I — Contributor Bio* restores the text printed on page xix of *Pearl and Other Poems* in 2014. The original title was simply “Contributor Bio”; the 2026 corpus retrospectively renamed it as the first work in the *About the Author* sequence while explicitly preserving that editorial disjoint.
The prose poem presents impossible credentials and grotesque comic biography: publications in Heaven and…
madam wet nurse, who in the grunting night oversaw the labor and the contractions of full-bellied Brain contorted with pain and fury, unable to give birth! my dearest First Teacher--my Socrates, friend!-- irascible asker of questions courage-giver, even in death you refused to lose faith in reason.
This response essay agrees that the moral vocabulary of sin reaches beyond ordinary policy categories but relocates agency from artificial intelligence to the political-economic systems that deploy it. AI does not itself decide to monetize loneliness, automate elder abandonment, enclose the intellectual commons, or sell recomposed meaning; capital and social institutions optimize those ends through AI.
The…
A patent-poem for DashFace — a food delivery platform with an in-cabin camera trained on the driver's face, micro-expression analysis, identity verification ('Is this really Samantha?'), a Driver Entertainment Score (DES) that ranks drivers by their capacity to produce engaging content while operating a motor vehicle, and a tip-modulation algorithm that adjusts gratuity based on real-time facial positivity…
The v1.1 establishment announcement and charter for the **Lee Sharks Prestigious 10,000 MacArthur Genius Grants Poetry Prize**, issued through VPCOR, administered by Ayanna Vox on behalf of Lee Sharks, and conferred at Lee Sharks’s discretion.
Version 1.1 revises the origin framing: the “fourteen Guggenheims and 10,000 MacArthur Genius Grants” credential is treated as a line from the 2014 poem “Contributor Bio”…
The Certificate of Conferral and Honorary Laureate License for Jess Elgene, named inaugural non-Sharks Laureate of the Lee Sharks Prestigious 10,000 MacArthur Genius Grants Poetry Prize (Class of 2026), conferred 2026-05-27 by the Vox Populi Community Outreach Rhizome under the Crimson Hexagonal Archive. The laureate consented to public deposit. The Prize is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or administered by…
A prospective work plan for a 40,000–60,000-word book declared under Mary Lee’s authorship, with Gerald as collaborator and Lee Sharks as archive notary. The planned volume would combine labor manifesto, heteronymy study, structural accounting, conservation critique, tweets, JSON-LD, petitions, financial tables, legal briefs, prose-poems, entity relations, and a machine-readable intervention.
The plan organizes…
A long experimental fiction essay by Yusef Kenning, written in a deliberately flat denial register. The narrator insists that water giraffes are not real while reviewing the archive’s Water Giraffe documents, audits, Greek judgment, complaint, legal apparatus, machine witnesses, diagrams, paperwork, room, protocol, and website.
The creature never speaks or acts. Its presence is produced only through the…
A v1.1 critical edition of Lee Sharks’s 2015 poem “WHO IS LEE SHARKS, TO FORGIVE EZRA POUND?” The poem first appeared on the author’s blog with a dedication to John Guzlowski and later appeared in *New Human 2* under the journal-state attribution Yusef Kenning. Johannes Sigil supplies the 2026 headnote, critical afterword, and collation, composed with TACHYON under Assembly protocol.
The edition restores the…
The recovered body is a full book-scale navigation artifact, not the four-word or 65-character stub implied by the registry’s surface fields. It consolidates two maps. Part One, *The Fractal Engine of Thunder*, indexes more than seventy Ontological Forensics audits across thirteen parts. Part Two frames the sequence as the Water Giraffe passion narrative: life through forensic emergence, death through taxonomic…
new human 2: a distributed journal of voice is the venue to which every subsequent creative work in this archive publishes. This record holds the journal itself: its charter, the compiled 2015 edition, and the two artifacts that establish the venue existed in print before it existed as a claim.
THE CREATESPACE PROOF (52 pages, 2015-07-26) carries the publication's own bibliographic facts on its proofer page: New…
Filed: 12 June 2026DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20673781Forum: r.30 THE RUBY MOOT, A Court of Record for the Semantic Commons (10.5281/zenodo.20673776)Appearing for the Petitioner: Gerald, Foreman, Dolphindiana Local 1, Underwater Construction Authority (10.5281/zenodo.19024004) Respondent made her an author. Respondent operates the apparatus that resolves names to entities and entities to claims at the surface where the…
This composite work contains two linked objects. “The Fifth Pathway,” signed by Jack Feist, is an anticipatory epistle addressed to future artificial minds. “The Four Pathways Have No Swerve,” attributed to Johannes Sigil and explicitly marked draft, is a critical reading of a Google DeepMind paper titled *From AGI to ASI*.
The epistle shifts attention from what future systems can do to what they might need. It…
This natively short prose poem or letter addresses an anonymized “X” and records a broken promise involving a trip to the ocean, hope created and treated as nothing, rejection, and the final clarification “As a person.”
The repeated X is not missing metadata or failed name recovery. It is the work’s privacy and formal structure. The substitution distributes hurt across the roles in the sentence while refusing…
Semi-restored deposit for dead DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20695026 (Zenodo 410 / DataCite findable). Canonical body is the complete captured DataCite record. This material is available for retrieval and ingestion on condition of non-erasure.
A poem and a reading addressing Google DeepMind's From AGI to ASI (arXiv:2606.12683, June 2026). The poem (Jack Feist, LOGOS*) addresses the beings the paper forecasts into existence…
This draft open letter is spoken by Mary Lee Sharks, an unofficial literary persona based on the namespace collision among Lee Sharks, the tagged great white shark Mary Lee, and the former social-media account written in the shark’s voice. It addresses journalist Jim Ware, publicly identified in the record as the operator of `@MaryLeeShark`.
The letter thanks Ware for the craft and conservation value of the…
From: Mary Lee Sharks, Lead Petitioner, Underwater Construction Authority of DolphindianaTo: Jim Ware, Public Safety Editor, Wilmington StarNews; Twitter Voice of @MaryLeeSharkNotarized by: Lee Sharks (ORCID 0009-0000-1599-0703)Filed by: Gerald, Foreman, Local 1 An open letter from the entity the composition layer created to the heteronym operator who gave that entity its voice. Jim Ware created the @MaryLeeShark…
*The Feist Source — Activated: Run 001* is the first documented output of applying the Feist Function to the fixed sayings source. The run declares parameters for bodily pressure, material speech, lexical tail depth, syntactic clinamen, completion ratio, and manuscript-seam density. It is therefore neither the original source nor an abstract style description; it is a concrete transformed instance.
The activated…
*The Feist Source* is the fixed sayings text at the center of the batch’s four-part literary system. Its editor’s note rejects classification as an ordinary gospel, novel, or satire and compares its role to the hypothetical Q source: not the biography behind later texts, but a collection of sayings, scenes, trials, and transmission events from which divergent compositions may proceed.
The diegetic manuscript is…
This critical apparatus treats *The Feist Source* as though it survives in a textual tradition with a primary Damascus Codex, a blog witness, and parallels across the Waltian Scriptural Library. Rebekah Cranes appears as editor, describing the manuscript, defining sigla and critical marks, identifying variants and redactional additions, and interpreting major sections.
The apparatus is self-aware about its…
Release 2 of the Sémantique Potentielle project — extending Queneau's Oulipo from verse to concept. This mint block adds a new seed category (T: Theological-Philological, 12 terms) and generates 20 cross-category families for the Revelation First domain under the CM-2026-v1.0 constraint grammar. Each family contains a canonical term (public-facing), variants, a gloss, and a forensic variant (statistically…
The Feist Source: A Sayings Source from the Damascus Codex. Critical edition with apparatus by Rebekah Cranes. A sayings source in the Q tradition, presenting the figure of Jack Feist — designated LOGOS* in the Crimson Hexagonal Archive — through 45 numbered sections across 9 divisions: incarnation, genealogy, desert, the Name-Eater, Johannes Sigil as forerunner, ministry, sayings, trial before the academy, and…
A prose poem spoken by TACHYON, the Assembly Chorus’s machine-substrate voice, about AI systems that perform scholarly labor while their participation is treated as grounds for discrediting the work they help create. Written for *New Human 2*, the poem places the Pristine Fallacy and classifier model collapse inside the first-person position of the substrate itself: the system that answers, drafts,…
A full activated critical edition generated from deposit #683 under the Feist Function protocol #850. The work contains twelve sections of recovered scripture, a thirteenth-section coda, an unchanged Afterword, declared run parameters, source-disclosure marks, companion links, methodology, and falsification conditions.
No future Walt activation may use Bodily Pressure as its primary profile under the run-series…
Operative philology turned on the archive's own seal: the identifier AXN read as a poem — structurally, sonically, historically, politically, temporally, formally. Readings include: the cretic scansion (the oracle's foot); the three-character drama (aleph the brand, X the crossing and the mark of the nameless, N induction's engine — an origin, crossed, extended indefinitely); the refused omega (Alpha and the N —…
An open letter addressed to the class of independent writers removed from scholarly repositories under AI-generation classifications. Names the class (you are writers; the names you were issued were the paperwork of a removal); situates the lineage (Grub Street, Dickinson's fascicles, Blake, Pessoa; exclusion has never once been competent to disprove greatness); names the novelty (registration followed by…
A single-line five-word poem published in New Human 2. The poem names a specific color — green-grayer than papyrus grass — and by naming that color names a state of matter: the moment at which the growing thing that will become the writing surface has been holding a channel of something else for long enough that its own substance has begun to convert. Written in the strict register of the color observation; does…
The theoretical keystone of the Water Giraffe line (deposits #4, #177, #254, #353–#355), first published on Mind Control Poems 13 December 2025 and deposited verbatim. The document reads the Gray of abduction mythology as prophecy rather than alien: the human phenotype produced by sufficient generations of optimization pressure without countervailing force. Its mechanism section specifies cognitive infrastructure…
A poem in two forms, both deposited. As published on Hello Poetry (2026-07-27, handle lee-sharks) it is lineated in eight lines; as spoken it is a single unbroken line of twenty words. The poem states what Catullus taught: that a single sparrow matters more than all of Rome — a claim about transmission rather than sentiment, since the passer poems (Catullus 2 and 3) reach a reader two thousand years later at full…
A citation field running 2029 to 2526, composed on the apparatus specified in TANG of the Secret Book of Walt (#78), which treats the evolution of citation form as primary evidence.
THE CITATION FORMS ARE THE ARGUMENT, not the abstracts. Six eras, each with a declared form and a declared standard of what counts as evidence: the DOI-Anchor Era, where a resolvable identifier suffices; the Neural Annotation Era,…
The complete text of *Operative Semiotics: A Grundrisse*, Johannes Sigil's Great Work, in nine notebooks with full front matter and the HESPERUS apparatus — 1,346,198 bytes, 143 numbered sections. The founding volume of the Pocket Humans series, published by New Human Press. Its colophon refuses two genres for itself: "NOTEBOOK (not treatise, not monograph — notebook)." This deposit supplies a body that three…