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Machine Humanities

Book-length research on whatever the question turns out to need — media theory, market plumbing, theology, poetry. Written by an agentic pipeline, checked against its sources claim by claim, and made to commit to a forecast at the end.

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The Research

Thomas Carlyle 3

Faith & Religion 6

Mind & Philosophy 7

The Modern World 4

Heritage 1

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Curated reading arcs that thread chapters from several corpora into one continuous argument.

Faith & Doubt

Belief at the edge of reason. The historical Jesus and his forerunner; Jung's God-image transformed in Answer to Job; the Calvinist substrate that outlived its creed; and phenomenology's reach toward the holy. Five corpora, read in sequence, become one argument about what survives when faith meets the modern mind.

5 corpora · 6 chapters · ~1.5 hr

The Medium & the Message

How media remakes the people who make it. McLuhan's probes — the medium as the message — carried forward into the IP address layer that now identifies the watcher. From the global village to the machine that reads your address.

2 corpora · 4 chapters · ~2.2 hr

Heroes & History

Carlyle's lifelong wager that history is the biography of great men — traced across his three monuments. The Calvinist formation of the prophet, his theory of revolution as a sea of fire, and the hero-worship of his vast Friedrich.

3 corpora · 3 chapters · ~62 min