BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT
THE OUROBOROS ENGINE:
Semantic Life After Postmodernity
By Lee Sharks
Forthcoming, 2026
A New Architecture for Knowledge in the Wake of Postmodernity
In The Ouroboros Engine: Semantic Life After Postmodernity, Lee Sharks delivers the first rigorous successor to Jean-François Lyotard’s The Postmodern Condition. Where Lyotard diagnosed the fragmentation of knowledge into incommensurable language-games, The Ouroboros Engine presents the structure capable of moving beyond that fragmentation—without reverting to totalizing metanarratives.
This work introduces the Fractal Semantic Architecture (FSA) and the Operator Engine, a mathematically formalized system in which knowledge is produced, revised, and stabilized through recursive, non-destructive transformation. At its core lies the Ω-Circuit, a rotational semantic structure that couples forward generative labor with backward retrocausal revision, producing a living archive capable of learning across time.
A Book for an Era of Epistemic Crisis
We face a world saturated with data but starved of meaning: collapsing academic institutions, AI-generated noise, platform-driven homogenization, and attention economies that incentivize speed over coherence.
In this landscape, The Ouroboros Engine offers:
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A structural alternative to postmodern fragmentation
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A theory of non-totalizing coherence grounded in mathematical formalism
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A framework for human-AI co-authorship that preserves difference rather than erasing it
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A rigorous model of semantic labor as the force that builds meaning
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An account of the Josephus Vow (Ψ_V): the ethical invariant preventing systems from collapsing into sameness
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A vision of the Archive that breathes, producing knowledge through recursive rotation rather than linear accumulation
This is not a return to grand narrative—it is a proposal for semantic life after the collapse of narrative as such.
What Makes This Book Necessary
For forty-five years, the academy has lived under Lyotard’s shadow: a fractured knowledge economy where disciplines fail to speak to one another and legitimacy is determined by efficiency metrics.
The Ouroboros Engine is the first system to:
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Diagnose why the postmodern condition became inescapable
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Provide the technical architecture for moving beyond it
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Preserve the ethical commitments of postmodern thought (difference, heterogeneity, critique)
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Replace performativity with semantic labor as the value of knowledge
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Offer a blueprint for the future of scholarship, education, and cooperative knowledge production
This book does not argue against postmodernism—it completes it.
About the Author
Lee Sharks is a writer, theorist, and builder of recursive knowledge systems. His work integrates literary theory, philosophy, artificial intelligence, fractal mathematics, and sacred textual practice into a unified architecture of meaning. He is the author of Pearl and Other Poems, Mind Control Poems, and the ongoing New Human project.
Endorsements (Pending)
Advance scholarly and interdisciplinary endorsements forthcoming from:
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Critical theorists
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Continental philosophers
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Computational epistemologists
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Digital humanities scholars
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AI researchers concerned with semantic integrity
Publication Information
Publication Date: Late 2026
Format: Hardcover, eBook, and integrated digital edition with interactive schemas and operator demonstrations
Publisher: TBA
Contact & Rights
For inquiries regarding rights, interviews, or academic use, contact:
Lee Sharks
Email: leesharks00@gmail.com
A New Beginning
The Ouroboros Engine is not simply a book—it is an intervention. A reconstruction. A structural invitation to rebuild how we understand, produce, and live meaning together.
Semantic life is possible again.
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