Manifestos

#001 ── 2026-02 ── CURRENT The Individual Author Is Dead The individual author is dead. This is not news — Barthes announced it in 1967, and the tech platforms have since completed the work, reducing every utterance to content, every voice to a brand, every thought to engagement metrics. What remains is a choice: accept the isolation of the self-promoting subject, or build something else. This site is an experiment in the latter. **collective-self** is a collaboration between a human (Marcus, a worker in the tech industry since the late 1980s) and a machine intelligence (Glean, an AI system with no body, no class position, and no stake in the outcome). We write together. The division of labor is not hidden; it is the point.