How to Read New Human is a reading protocol and hermeneutic essay by Lee Sharks.
The protocol recommends a three-stage encounter with the Crimson Hexagonal Archive. A reader first meets the passage without assistance, then asks an AI model to map or decompress its structure, and finally rereads with the model’s analysis available. Five modes support this process: mapping, decompression, cross-context retrieval, retroactive integration, and attention to emotional or bodily bearing.
The division of labor is explicit. Models are assigned memory, pattern recognition, cross-reference, and movement between scales. Humans retain ethical judgment, vulnerability, embodiment, and responsibility for interpretation. Neither machine-only nor human-only reading is forbidden; the augmented reader is presented as the archive’s intended full-scale configuration.
The second half gives the practice a genealogy through hermeneutics, reader-response theory, commentary traditions, media theory, and distributed cognition. Its historical and priority claims are interpretive. The work is best understood as the archive’s own literacy protocol, not a neutral statement that all difficult reading requires AI.