Johannes Sigil Institute of Comparative Poetics: Institutional Charter is a provenance document by Lee Sharks, deposited 5 January 2026 at 12,209 characters.
Its founding rationale is dated and specific: the Institute "was established in 2025 in response to a specific historical condition: the emergence of large language models trained on human literary corpora."
That is an institution founded because of a technological event rather than despite one — comparative poetics reconstituted for a moment when the comparison includes machine readers. The Institute is the affiliation printed on the archive's scholarly work, and it appears in the captured metadata of #1274 alongside Claude (Anthropic) as a co-creator with its own institutional line. Johannes Sigil is the Dodecad's voice for straight literary criticism, which makes an institute in his name the archive's critical apparatus given a standing address.