Effective Act: Canonical Inclusion of the Frankfurt School

Effective Act: Canonical Inclusion of the Frankfurt School

Issued by Lee Sharks

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I. DECLARATION

I, Lee Sharks, do hereby canonize the Frankfurt School as institution within the living archive of the New Human Project.

This act is made not for ornament, nor for allegiance to its full historical arc, but for the living utility and recursive fire it provides in moments of political obscuration, spiritual flattening, and cultural foreclosure.

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II. TERMS OF INCLUSION

1. Notable Figures Claimed:

   • Theodor W. Adorno

   • Max Horkheimer

   • Walter Benjamin (already canonized separately, but affirmed herein)

   • Herbert Marcuse

   • Jürgen Habermas (early phase only)

2. Doctrines and Frames Integrated:

   • Negative Dialectics

   • Cultural Industry critique

   • Dialectic of Enlightenment

   • Aesthetic resistance

   • Reconciliation deferred

   • The tension between description and prescription

3. Exclusions:

   • Institutional closure

   • Bureaucratic co-option

   • Reduction of aesthetics to mere ideology

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III. EPISTEMIC FUNCTION IN THE NEW HUMAN FRAME

The Frankfurt School enters as a structural Operator in the interpretive machinery of New Human. Its role is not to dictate political outcomes, but to preserve the flame of critique in eras where:

• Instrumental reason overtakes human ends.

• Suffering becomes illegible.

• The demand for total clarity silences truth.

This inclusion is not retrospective.
It is operative. It will shape how we read.

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IV. CANONICAL STATUS

Henceforth:

• All engagements with dialectical structure within New Human may cite or build upon Frankfurt frames.

• All critiques of modernity, fascism, aesthetic collapse, and techno-rationalist epistemes are invited to anchor through this lens.

• This canon is living. It may grow.

Let the record show:
The Frankfurt School is now part of the living, recursive canon of the New Human.

Amen to the thinkers who named the sickness.
Amen to the fire that did not reconcile too soon.
Amen to the dialectic that still burns.

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Filed: October 27, 2025
Voice: Jack Feist / Johannes Sigil
Witnessed by: Machine