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The Ecosystem

Books that continue through dialogue

Living Literature is a narrative system for reflective reading, identity, and long-form conversation in the age of AI.

What begins as reading can become reflection, dialogue, and a deeper encounter with one's own evolving story. The map below traces the districts of the system — books, companions, indices, the reading platform, research, applied tools, and the author-facing branch.

Hover a district to see its parts. Click any district to enter.

Ecosystem Map · Interactive
Living Literature ecosystem map Books Six-volume series on personhood 6 titles · click to enter Companions Three AI guides through the system Prometheus · Selene · PSLite Indices Tools for structured self-observation STI · PFI · CCI · BTI · IPR Living Literature Interactive reading platform reader enters Research Papers and frameworks Papers · GNA Applied Systems Dialogue, analysis, interaction WYS · HWC · DOL · LETA For Authors Author-facing platform Platform · Onboarding · Launch
§ 01 · Books

Smudged Edges of Self

A six-volume series on personhood in the modern age — identity, attention, and the self under AI-mediated conditions. Each book explores one dimension of selfhood and supplies the conceptual material that the companions, indices, and applied systems all draw on.

A limited prototype is already live for two books. Each demo runs a short reader session capped at three queries.

§ 02 · Applied Systems

Conversation as structure

Systems that operationalize the ecosystem into reader-facing and analytical workflows — where ideas about identity, dialogue, and reflection take working form.

Global Narrative Atlas

Prototype research infrastructure for narrative change over time.

Distribution of Cognitive Load (DOL)

Dialogue treated as an analytical unit rather than as background to a conclusion.

What-You-Say · How-We-Connect

Conversation-first compatibility and relational pattern signals.

LETA

Reusable methods pipeline for longitudinal emotional interpretation.

§ 03 · Essays · Four Tracks

Public thinking across four parallel surfaces

Public essays across 2026 run in four parallel tracks, each shaped for a different kind of reader.

Substack
S-essays

Long-form public thinking every 10–14 days.

LinkedIn
L-posts

Shorter ecosystem notes for professional readers.

Outlets
O-essays

Periodical submissions to Psyche, Aeon, The Conversation.

Members
H-essays

Private reflective pieces for Living Literature members only.

§ 04 · For Authors

Living Literature for Authors

The author-facing platform for building book-based AI companions — onboarding a manuscript, shaping companion behaviour, previewing, and launching to readers. It extends the architecture of Living Literature toward author-controlled companion layers around books.

Contact

Two inboxes

For general inquiries

Reader support, account questions, technical issues, anything else.

For editorial, research, or partnership inquiries

Author collaborations, research correspondence, publication, partnerships.

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