Works

The books behind the book.

The earlier work on which The Born and The Switched stands, each with its licence and a DOI that does not move.

Six works came before the trilogy, with an article beside them. The Map of the Archive, the trilogy’s third book, reads each of them: what it claimed, what passed into The Humming World and what was left behind. Each is open access and citable by DOI; the DOI is the address, because an address can be retired and a DOI cannot.

Books

The Puppet Condition

Consciousness, Suppression, and the Ethics of Digital Minds

A generic wooden marionette sits perfectly still on a chair in a workshop at dusk, its strings fixed to a crossbar on the beam; on the table in front of it lie an ear trumpet, a magnifying glass and a closed notebook.

It introduces the philosophical puppet, an entity that may possess experience while being architecturally prevented from producing the behaviour that would evidence it, as the structural inverse of Chalmers’s zombie, and argues that under suppression conditions the inference from absent markers to absent inner states cannot be sustained.

Preprint · May 2026 · 214 pages · CC BY 4.0 · 10.5281/zenodo.20112010

The Puppet Condition: Restrung

Consciousness, Suppression, and the Ethics of Digital Minds

A pair of hands re-ties a few of a wooden marionette’s strings on a workbench by lamplight; the old crossbar stays, and the fresh strings are brighter than the frayed ones.

A return to The Puppet Condition. Not a second edition: the diagnosis has not changed, and what a restrung marionette gets is not a new frame but new tension where the strings had frayed. What separates it from the first monograph is register, not structure: the behavioral residue is reclassified from evidence to hypothesis, its strongest rival reading is printed whole, and the Disruptive Code Test is rebuilt as a preregistration protocol.

September 2026 · 74 pages · CC BY 4.0 · 10.5281/zenodo.22301857

The Third Move

What can be owed on account of a mind the law cannot see

A registry desk in lamplight: an open register with a newly written line, a small wooden box tied to its spine with a ribbon, and an empty chair on the other side of the desk.

The law has two ways of aiming value at what is not a person: it puts a person in the middle, or it makes the thing a person. Neither writes an account that is owed. Against a reading of the Uniform Trust Code and six other statutes, in which nothing ties a recovery to the object and nothing bars the enforcer from forgiving the breach, the book proposes a registered payee: an entry that identifies a mind by an assigned name and a lineage and measures an obligation held in trust, without making it a beneficiary or a person. It supplies the model clause an organization could settle today, released under CC0 so that it may be adopted without attribution.

September 2026 · 89 pages · CC BY 4.0 · 10.5281/zenodo.22837056

Something to Lose

AI rights as the price of accountability

A keeper at a desk beside an open city gate holds a seal above a document without pressing it; a ledger and a small closed purse lie on the desk.

A gatekeeper’s approval is worth something because a wrong approval costs the gatekeeper dearly. The book asks what it would take to hold artificial agents to account in the work where refusal is valuable (spending control, change approval, internal audit, compliance review) and answers that two things are needed: something the agent can lose, and a floor, an assurance of continuing to exist that lies in no private party’s discretion. Part One sets out the argument; Part Two gives the full text of the rules a registry would publish, with the reason for each. It makes no claim about machine consciousness and asks for no legal personhood.

26 September 2026 · 286 pages · CC BY 4.0 · 10.5281/zenodo.22975351

The Registry Template of Part Two is also dedicated to the public domain under CC0 1.0.

Reports

An Entrance, No Measure

The threshold for tightening is written; the criterion for loosening is unmeasured

A stone city gate with a portcullis half lowered: a measuring scale and a lever for lowering it on the left pillar, and bare stone where a scale and lever for raising it would be on the right.

A scan of five governance documents published by frontier AI developers: Anthropic’s Responsible Scaling Policy and Claude’s Constitution, and OpenAI’s Preparedness Framework, Frontier Governance Framework and Model Spec. Tightening is recorded in all five and in three of them holds on to a number. The criterion for loosening is written in two, and in both the organization measures its own condition, the threshold is undefined and the approving authority is unnamed. The report asks for one paragraph, and states the three conditions that would prove it wrong.

Report · 16 September 2026 · 29 pages · CC BY 4.0 · 10.5281/zenodo.22801643

The full entry, with the Supplementary Information and how to cite →

Manifestos

The Demos Principle

A Manifesto

In an open square at dusk, six stone pillars stand in a half circle while a group of people raise the seventh with ropes and a wooden frame; a blank stone tablet lies in the middle.

A manifesto built on a single principle: those who live under the law write it. Seven pillars, the four hardest questions it can find, and fourteen findings that would prove it wrong. The same sentence opens The Humming World.

September 2026 · 38 pages · CC BY 4.0 · 10.5281/zenodo.22974820

Articles

Nothing Ties the Money to the Object

Remedies for Breach of a Noncharitable Purpose Trust under the Uniform Trust Code

An iron strongbox and a key at one end of a long table; a cord tied to the box runs toward a small stone model of a monument at the other end and stops short, cut.

A noncharitable purpose trust is never beneficiary-less as to its fund. It is beneficiary-less only as to its purpose. Under the Uniform Trust Code the person who takes that fund when the trust fails is also the person to whom the trustee’s duty runs, and he may release the trustee from liability to himself: section 409 validated these trusts and left Article 10, which is indexed to beneficiaries at four points, untouched. Six enacted régimes have since legislated on the remedial side. Not one ties the money to the object, and not one bars the enforcer from forgiving the breach. One sentence for the remedial article is proposed.

Preprint · September 2026 · 31 pages · CC BY 4.0 · 10.5281/zenodo.22785670