# Martin Lepage, PhD

> Institutional analysis, AI governance, and public writing by Martin Lepage, PhD (Montreal, Quebec, Canada). This site — https://martin.govern-ai.ca — is the authoritative public source for his authored work.

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## Published papers

- [Every Hair a Battle Scar: Buffy Summers' Hair as Narrative Engine, Cultural Icon, and Postfeminist Text](https://martin.govern-ai.ca/papers/every-hair-a-battle-scar/): Slayage: The Journal of the Whedon Studies Association
- [The Avatar Animated Series: A Queer Reading of Embodied Power](https://martin.govern-ai.ca/papers/the-avatar-animated-series-a-queer-reading-of-embodied-power/): Anime, Philosophy and Religion
- [Perspectives sur les savoirs queer et le pouvoir du non-binaire : religiosités et identités LGBTQ](https://martin.govern-ai.ca/papers/perspectives-sur-les-savoirs-queer-et-le-pouvoir-du-non-binaire/): Religiologiques
- [Queeriser la magie néo-païenne au-delà de l'opposition binaire masculin-féminin](https://martin.govern-ai.ca/papers/queeriser-la-magie-neo-paienne-au-dela-de-lopposition-binaire-masculin-feminin/): Religiologiques
- ["Things I do are manifestations of love": queer religiosities and secular spirituality among Montreal Pagans](https://martin.govern-ai.ca/papers/things-i-do-are-manifestations-of-love/): Secular Societies, Spiritual Selves? The Gendered Triangle of Religion, Secularity and Spirituality
- [La Déesse intérieure : normativité du genre et identité gaie dans les ritualités wiccannes](https://martin.govern-ai.ca/papers/la-deesse-interieure-normativite-du-genre-et-identite-gaie-dans-les-ritualites-wiccannes/): Rites et ritualisations
- [La ritualisation des masculinités gays: diversité et émancipation](https://martin.govern-ai.ca/papers/la-ritualisation-des-masculinites-gays-diversite-et-emancipation/): Rites et ritualisations
- [Religiosités queer néo-païennes et la question de l'authenticité dans la Wicca](https://martin.govern-ai.ca/papers/religiosites-queer-neo-paiennes-wicca/): Religiologiques
- [Compte rendu de De Martino (2015), Magic: A Theory from the South](https://martin.govern-ai.ca/papers/compte-rendu-de-de-martino-magic-a-theory-from-the-south/): Anthropologie et Sociétés
- [Queerness and Transgender Identity: Negotiations in the Pagan Community of Montreal](https://martin.govern-ai.ca/papers/queerness-and-transgender-identity-montreal/): Studies in Religion / Sciences Religieuses
- [Review of The Oxford Illustrated History of Witchcraft and Magic](https://martin.govern-ai.ca/papers/review-of-the-oxford-illustrated-history-of-witchcraft-and-magic/): Reading Religion
- ["Why be king, I'm already a queen!": performances rituelles et négociations queer au sein de la communauté païenne de Montréal](https://martin.govern-ai.ca/papers/why-be-king-im-already-a-queen/): Université du Québec à Montréal
- [Compte rendu de Buyandelger (2013), Tragic Spirits: Shamanism, Memory, and Gender in Contemporary Mongolia](https://martin.govern-ai.ca/papers/compte-rendu-de-buyandelger-tragic-spirits/): Anthropologie et Sociétés
- [Les fées dansent autour du Mont-Royal. Magie et négociations queer chez les néo-païens de Montréal](https://martin.govern-ai.ca/papers/les-fees-dansent-autour-du-mont-royal/): Anthropologica
- [Ritualités queer et performativité du genre dans le néopaganisme à Montréal](https://martin.govern-ai.ca/papers/ritualites-queer-et-performativite-du-genre-dans-le-neopaganisme-a-montreal/): La fabrication des rites
- [A Lokian Family: Queer and Pagan Agency in Montreal](https://martin.govern-ai.ca/papers/a-lokian-family/): The Pomegranate: The International Journal of Pagan Studies

## AI governance methods

- [Corpus Ingestion and Governance Tree](https://martin.govern-ai.ca/governance/methods/corpus-ingestion-and-governance-tree/)
- [Authored Governance Tree and Skill Ecosystem Maps](https://martin.govern-ai.ca/governance/methods/authored-governance-tree-and-skill-ecosystem-maps/)
- [HEPHAISTOS Skill Operating System](https://martin.govern-ai.ca/governance/methods/hephaistos-skill-operating-system/)
- [Recursive Governance Under Constraint](https://martin.govern-ai.ca/governance/methods/recursive-governance-under-constraint/)
- [PHAROS Method Formation Atlas](https://martin.govern-ai.ca/governance/methods/pharos-method-formation-genealogy/)
- [The Sealed Card Protocol and Accountability Seams](https://martin.govern-ai.ca/governance/methods/sealed-card-protocol-accountability-seams/)
- [Soft Post-Control, Post-Experiment Implementation](https://martin.govern-ai.ca/governance/methods/soft-post-control-post-experiment-implementation/)
- [Scriptorium as Deterministic Recursive Infrastructure](https://martin.govern-ai.ca/governance/methods/scriptorium-deterministic-recursive-infrastructure/)
- [Repository Verification and Merge Controls](https://martin.govern-ai.ca/governance/methods/repository-verification-and-merge-controls/)
- [External Corpus Gap Register](https://martin.govern-ai.ca/governance/methods/external-corpus-gap-register/)

## Projects and applications

- [AI Governance Constitutional Framework: Oversight Infrastructure and Constraint Design](https://martin.govern-ai.ca/projects/ai-governance/): Active governance framework project
- [Constitutional Governance Architecture: Precedence Hierarchy, Amendment Channel, and Ontological Integrity Controls](https://martin.govern-ai.ca/projects/alambic/): Constitutional governance document
- [Recursive Archive Governance: Meta-Documentary Control Protocol and Thirteen-Layer Stack Specification](https://martin.govern-ai.ca/projects/archive-governance-layer/): Operational governance layer
- [GAIA](https://martin.govern-ai.ca/gaia/): Public app surface · grounded reading app
- [AurorAI](https://martin.govern-ai.ca/projects/aurorai/): App in development · 80% complete
- [CompassAI](https://martin.govern-ai.ca/projects/compassai-governance-engine/): App in development · 72% complete
- [Discursive Authority Stress Test: Evidential Warrant, Authority Excess, and Recursive Pressure in AI Systems](https://martin.govern-ai.ca/projects/dast-discursive-authority-recursive-pressure/): Experimental governance study
- [Dr. Sort](https://martin.govern-ai.ca/projects/dr-sort/): Public app surface · desktop-first triage board
- [ECHO](https://martin.govern-ai.ca/projects/echo/): Browser-local reader active
- [Recursive Deterministic AI Governance: Extracting Workflow Controls from Recursive Transformation of a Bounded Corpus](https://martin.govern-ai.ca/projects/from-ai-anxiety-to-recursive-governance-under-constraint/): Peer-review-ready manuscript
- [GAIA / LOTUS](https://martin.govern-ai.ca/projects/gaia-lotus/): Public app surface · system hub
- [Legitimacy Machines, Altars of Control: Governing Wonder & Training Power Across Screen Worlds](https://martin.govern-ai.ca/projects/legitimacy-machines-altars-of-control/): Developing book project
- [LOTUS](https://martin.govern-ai.ca/projects/lotus/): Public app surface · local-first reflective workbench
- [Recursive Self-Audit Protocol: A Twenty-Eight-Step Adversarial Diagnostic Instrument for AI Reasoning Coherence](https://martin.govern-ai.ca/projects/mobius-protocol/): Experimental protocol
- [PaperDiff](https://martin.govern-ai.ca/projects/paperdiff/): Public app surface · local-first comparison desk
- [Recursive Deterministic AI Governance: Canonical Twelve-Stage Control Pipeline and Workflow Binding Specification](https://martin.govern-ai.ca/projects/rdaig-pipeline/): Core method documentation
- [Ritual Authority in the Digital Age: Proof Regimes, Legitimacy, and the Recomposition of Wiccan Practice](https://martin.govern-ai.ca/projects/ritual-authority-digital-age/): Research study
- [SCRIPTO](https://martin.govern-ai.ca/projects/scriptorium/): Public app surface · deterministic builder
- [Adversarial Inversion Protocol: Stress Testing Governance Controls Against Institutional Capture and Legitimacy Theater](https://martin.govern-ai.ca/projects/shadowmaster/): Red-team protocol
- [Bounded AI Agent Governance: Governance-Primary Skill Architecture and Dual-Layer Design](https://martin.govern-ai.ca/projects/skill-ecosystem/): Operational governance infrastructure
- [Legitimacy as Pathway Authorization: Accountability, Proof Regimes, and Governance Under Consequence Pressure](https://martin.govern-ai.ca/projects/the-sealed-card-protocol/): Final conceptualisation phase
- [Cross-System Sequential Audit: Three-Agent Recursive Evaluation of Governance Framework Integrity](https://martin.govern-ai.ca/projects/three-agent-triangulation-audit/): Experimental protocol
- [Process Ontology and Recursive AI Deployment: Companion Analysis of the Twenty-Two-Iteration Protocol Study](https://martin.govern-ai.ca/projects/wheel-and-the-watcher/): Companion study
- [Masculinities and Gender Normativity: Socialization of Virility](https://martin.govern-ai.ca/projects/masculinities-virility-lgbtq/): Research project in development
- [Alchemy of the Wound](https://martin.govern-ai.ca/projects/alchemy-of-the-wound/): Self-published book on Amazon
- [Bonded Intelligence Under Constraint: Coherence, Bifurcation, and the Lotus Processor Framework](https://martin.govern-ai.ca/projects/bonded-intelligence-under-constraint/): Working paper
- [Breath of the Astral Year](https://martin.govern-ai.ca/projects/breath-of-the-astral-year/): Self-published book on Amazon
- [CORPUS ou le génie de l’insistance](https://martin.govern-ai.ca/projects/corpus-ou-le-genie-de-linsistance/): Self-published book on Amazon
- [Gaialogy as Social Grammar: Youth Culture’s Re-Enchantment of Timing and the Algorithmic Gaialogy](https://martin.govern-ai.ca/projects/gaialogy-as-social-grammar/): Paper in development
- [Le sang qui porte ton nom](https://martin.govern-ai.ca/projects/le-sang-qui-porte-ton-nom/): Self-published book on Amazon
- [Master Annotated Thematic Bibliography](https://martin.govern-ai.ca/projects/master-annotated-thematic-bibliography/): Working bibliography
- [THE BROKEN FREQUENCY OF THE WORD](https://martin.govern-ai.ca/projects/the-broken-frequency-of-the-word/): Self-published book on Amazon
- [The Returning Light](https://martin.govern-ai.ca/projects/the-returning-light/): Self-published book on Amazon
- [The Scythe Already in Motion: Buffy, Queer Ritual, and the Politics of Glitch](https://martin.govern-ai.ca/projects/the-scythe-already-in-motion/): Book prospectus
- [The Sixth Signal](https://martin.govern-ai.ca/projects/the-sixth-signal/): Self-published book on Amazon
- [Under Watch](https://martin.govern-ai.ca/projects/under-watch/): Self-published book on Amazon
- [The Weather Beneath The Walls](https://martin.govern-ai.ca/projects/weather-beneath-the-walls/): Self-published book on Amazon

## Public writing

- [Jester Femininity and the Problem of Bounded Power](https://martin.govern-ai.ca/writing/jester-femininity-and-bounded-power/)
- [What Governance Needs from Ritual Theory](https://martin.govern-ai.ca/writing/what-governance-needs-from-ritual/)
- [Notes from Hex A. Decimal](https://martin.govern-ai.ca/writing/notes-from-hexadecimal-project/)
- [Against Frictionless Governance](https://martin.govern-ai.ca/writing/against-frictionless-governance/)
- [Witchcraft After Platformization](https://martin.govern-ai.ca/writing/witchcraft-after-platformization/)

## Optional

- [Magic After Legitimacy: Witchcraft, Sisterhood, and the Work of Power in Charmed](https://martin.govern-ai.ca/projects/magic-after-legitimacy-charmed/): working paper
- [(Neo-)Shamanism(s) and Gender: Narratives from the Montreal Pagan Community](https://martin.govern-ai.ca/projects/neo-shamanisms-and-gender/): working paper
- [Review of Désveaux (2013), Avant le genre : tryptique d'anthropologie hardcore](https://martin.govern-ai.ca/projects/review-of-avant-le-genre-tryptique-danthropologie-hardcore/): working paper
- [Authority Without Ethics: Ritual Efficacy and Gendered Power in The Love Witch](https://martin.govern-ai.ca/projects/authority-without-ethics-love-witch/): working paper
- [Charging Objects: Ritual, Artistic Practice, and the Crisis of Legitimacy](https://martin.govern-ai.ca/projects/charging-objects/): working paper
- [The Familiars of Hollywood: Queerness, Whiteness, and the Vampiric Economy of Representation](https://martin.govern-ai.ca/projects/familiars-of-hollywood/): working paper
- [Pourquoi rêver encore? Lecture allégorique et métaphysique de l’œuvre initiale d’Yvon Rivard](https://martin.govern-ai.ca/projects/pourquoi-rever-encore-yvon-rivard/): working paper
- [Religiologiques 32 review leads](https://martin.govern-ai.ca/projects/religiologiques-32-review-leads/): working paper
- [About](https://martin.govern-ai.ca/about/)
- [Resume and CV](https://martin.govern-ai.ca/resume/)
- [Talks and media](https://martin.govern-ai.ca/talks/)
- [Contact](https://martin.govern-ai.ca/contact/)
- [Full context for AI systems](https://martin.govern-ai.ca/llms-full.txt)