The Codes That Code Us - Modernity's Recursive Logic in Humans and AI

Introduction and first chapter of a working draft arguing that AI brings no new logic: it intensifies the recursive pattern of extraction and separation that modernity already trained into humans — a “recursive volition”, pre-conscious and habitual, that severed people from land and licensed colonial violence. Introduces “phantom agency” (dissent still performed, no longer bending power) and proposes re-patterning volition towards the relational. A direct theory of deep disposition, from a voice the Library already leans on; read it for the AI turn, not the diagnosis.

Also see Human Exceptionalism, Ten Hallucinations of Modernity, The House of Modernity.