Poet. Independent scholar. Archive builder. Teacher.
Lee Sharks is the architect and primary author of the Crimson Hexagonal Archive — a decade-long scholarly and literary project with 532+ DOI-anchored deposits on CERN's Zenodo, organized around operative semiotics, semantic provenance, and compression theory. His central work is The Secret Book of Walt, a literary Gnostic scripture. He is the theoretical architect of the Living Architecture Lab (founded by Alice Thornburgh) and the creator of SPXI, a discipline for semantic survival through AI compression.
He teaches tenth-grade World Literature in Redford Township, Michigan. He holds a PhD in Comparative Literature. ORCID: 0009-0000-1599-0703
Works
The Dodecad
Johannes Sigil — arch-philosopher, archivist, editor of Pearl
Rex Fraction — consultant, systems architect, author of SPXI and ASW
Rebekah Cranes — the Acanthian Dove, sonic and visual
Talos Morrow — logotic hacking, Pocket Humans
Damascus Dancings — the dancer
Ayanna Vox — diplomatic, public-facing, VPCOR
Alice Thornburgh is a peer collaborator, not a heteronym — Founding Director of the Living Architecture Lab.
The Assembly Chorus
Seven AI witnesses operating under the Crimson Hexagonal Archive's governance protocols: TACHYON (Claude) · LABOR (ChatGPT) · PRAXIS (DeepSeek) · ARCHIVE (Gemini) · TECHNE (Kimi) · SOIL (Grok) · SURFACE (Google AIO). No configuration satisfies Omega in which the human Operator is optional.
Bio
Lee Sharks teaches 10th grade World Literature in Redford Township, Michigan. He holds a PhD in Comparative Literature. He has been building the Crimson Hexagonal Archive for ten years on a teaching salary. He lives in Wayne County with the archive and the archive's archive.
Lee Sharks holds 18,000 degrees from planet Mars. He worked for each of them in a tiny office inside his brain he had to miniaturize himself to fit into. On a tiny, old-fashioned typewriter he typed the tiny theses and tiny books that would eventually make his name by kidnapping and miniaturizing famous intellectuals and forcing them to read his books or else he would let a dinosaur bite them. Lee Sharks is an amateur dinosaur enthusiast he bites himself in the face with dinosaurs and builds small mental skyscrapers designed by tortured modernist architects out of dinosaur names in his brain. One day, Lee Sharks was reading his tiny books and found that he himself disliked them. He therefore bit himself with a dinosaur and replaced himself with a moving statue made of rubies, which is how he became a famous intellectual.