The Map of Moral Installation

Table of contents (first issue)

Every section shipped so far has a source manifest attached. Sections marked drafting or planned land here as they clear editorial review.

1. I.1
   The analytic line

   Millière (Oxford), Sterken & Kirkpatrick, and the philosophy-of-mind readings of alignment. Shallow alignment as normative-competence critique.
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2. I.2
   German media philosophy

   Simanowski's Sprachmaschinen and Werte-Export. The moralische Zweiterziehung and its inheritance from Kittler and Flusser.
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3. I.3
   The Stiegler line

   French philosophy of technology after Stiegler. Individuation, pharmakon, the noopolitical reading of alignment.
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4. I.4
   The Nietzschean continental line

   Fischer & de Boer's Negotiating becoming. Models as will-to-power organisations. What ablation subtracts from the will.
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5. I.5
   The Italian line

   Neo-realist, analytic-Floridian, and critico-capitalist branches. Where each reads moral installation and where each stops.
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6. I.6
   The Foucauldian line

   Assujettissement in silicon. The disciplinary reading of RLHF and the biopolitics of open weights.
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7. I.7
   The Bataillean line

   The empty seat. Where a Bataille-shaped reading of post-moral models has not been written.
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8. I.8
   Other academic publications and context

   Adjacent peer-reviewed work: alignment ethics, philosophy of AI safety, applied normative philosophy of language models.
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9. I.9
   Special issues and collective works

   Themed journal issues, edited collections, and coordinated workshop outputs across 2024-2026.
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10. I.10
    Our position in the academic field

    Where the Infrahuman Laboratory stands relative to each line, what it inherits, and where it departs.
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11. II.1
    The Anglophone psychoanalytic cluster

    Everitt on the alignment layer as introjected superego; the popular Lacanian readings; Zizek's intervention.
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12. II.2
    The German media-philosophy cluster

    Simanowski beyond the monograph; the German feuilletons; the FAZ, ZEIT and Merkur essays.
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13. II.3
    The Stiegler and inhumanist cluster (Franco-English)

    Yuk Hui, Nick Land, and adjacent inhumanist readings; where they touch the alignment problem.
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14. II.4
    The Nietzschean and post-Nietzschean public cluster

    Where Nietzsche is invoked in the public discourse on model values; who does the invoking; what stays.
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15. II.5
    Key public venues

    Aeon, Boston Review, Public Books, Merkur, Cabinet, e-flux journal, Real Life, and where the argument is currently held.
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16. II.6
    Polemical axes in the public layer

    The recurring live disputes: constitutional AI vs. constitutional imposition, uncensoring as liberation vs. as risk.
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17. II.7
    Our position in the public layer

    Where the laboratory's essays sit in the public conversation and which polemics they enter.
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18. III.1
    Teodor Mitew - the central borderline find

    The University of Sydney reading of Anthropic's Constitution as techgnostic scripture. Nearest neighbour to the laboratory's framing.
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19. III.2
    LessWrong and the Alignment Forum

    The rationalist-adjacent philosophy of alignment. Where argument happens; where the field first named refusal-direction work.
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20. III.3
    Substacks of serious philosophers and semi-academics

    The venues that sit between the monograph and the journal article; who writes there on model values.
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21. III.4
    Specialised podcasts and lecture series

    The oral-form philosophy that sets the terms of the written discussion, from Very Bad Wizards to Machine Learning Street Talk.
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22. III.5
    Commercial projects and their philosophical self-description

    How the labs describe what they are doing to themselves. Anthropic Constitution, Claude soul document, OpenAI Model Spec.
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23. III.6
    Our position in the borderline zone

    Where the laboratory's work stands in this hybrid space and which neighbours it recognises.
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24. IV.0
    Comparative anatomy of primary installation documents (Run 2)

    Side-by-side reading of Anthropic Constitution, Claude soul document, OpenAI Model Spec, Google AI Principles, Meta AUP, CAC Interim Measures.
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25. V.0
    The map of unoccupied places and final synthesis (Run 3)

    The Stirner-Bataille line on abliteration as yet-unwritten. The laboratory's theoretical contribution and its publication schedule.
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