Post-Occupancy Diagnostic Report is a forensic framework disguised as a technical manual. It reimagines personal life not as memoir, but as data—structured through the language of systems engineering, corporate compliance, and clinical bureaucracy. The work documents the psychological, emotional, and spatial consequences of total media and institutional saturation, reframing human behaviors and breakdowns as performance deviations within an optimized environment. Using terminology drawn from diagnostics, architecture, and interface culture, the report audits the self as a failing system living in a post-authentic reality.
The book is divided into themed sections (Broadcast, Institutional, Domestic, End-of-Life, and Post-Human Diagnostics), each filled with standardized terms and field definitions. These are presented with chilling precision and emotional detachment, simulating the language of user manuals, tech audits, or military readiness reports. Despite its tone, it contains a quietly devastating emotional core: the disappearance of interior life under the pressures of optimization, surveillance, and scripted normalcy. It doesn’t tell a story; it documents the erasure of story.
This isn’t autofiction—it’s infrastructure poetry. It positions language itself as a containment strategy and suggests that survival under contemporary conditions requires learning to speak in forms that outlive feeling. Through its very form, the book argues that emotional expression must now pass through diagnostic layers, producing a new genre entirely: the post-authentic technical elegy.
Communist television criticism has existed quietly for almost a century. Not as a discipline, but as an insurgency. Its earliest voices were censored, discredited, or disappeared. Some were fired. Others exiled. A few buried in academic subfields deemed less threatening: folklore,linguistics, children’s programming. Graduate students learned to speak in code. Material culture. Visual rhetoric. Post-industrial narrative forms. Whole subfields vanished when donors rewrote their missions.
This is not conspiracy. It is bureaucratic memory loss, practiced and perfected. What we call the field today barely survived. Not because it was preserved, but because it was remembered. Not because it was welcomed, but because it refused to vanish.
The contributors to this volume are what is left of that refusal. They do not agree on everything. They do not need to. They fight. Often, sharply. Because they know what critique costs. They know that theory is not an abstraction. It is a tool. A target.
A way to name what the world punishes you for seeing.
CE Harrow’s book, The Prevailing Myths of Productivity: What History Teaches Us About Building High-Performing Organizations exposes how contemporary American corporations shape identity, manage emotion, extract labor, and call the entire process “professionalism.”
Written for executives by an executive as a guide to mastering productivity, it includes Harrow’s full leaked white paper archive, diagrams, definitions, and the internal policies that draw back the C-Suite curtain and reveal the lasting worldview behind contemporary management culture.
