An operative myth is not a lie waiting to be debunked. It is a story doing structural work — load-bearing, budgeted, enforced. Debunking rarely stops one, because belief was never the point; participation is. The Index catalogs these fictions the way a field station catalogs weather: not to end the rain, but to know what is falling on us.
The inventory itself is kept in the Ledger. Around it, the working instruments — decks, engines, catalogs, and site studies — each a different way of getting a specimen to hold still long enough to be described.
THE MYTH LEDGER
The running inventory itself: individual named myths, cataloged and cross-referenced across every Myth Index project. Each entry records what the fiction produces and what it costs. Start here.
FIVE DOMESTIC MYTHS
Sitcom houses drawn as archaeological plates. Five floor plans read as reality-producing machinery: how a household absorbs change, where it lets the cost stay visible, and why there is always a basement when you need one.
HOLLYWOOD TAROT GRIMOIRE
A symbolic deck for reading the myth machinery of Hollywood: archetypes, genres, spells, and production rituals.
CAPITALIST MYTHS
A working index of the stories that make capitalism feel natural, inevitable, and self-confirming.
FOUNDER MYTHS
A catalog of startup and founder narratives: origin stories, hero myths, disruption scripts, and venture folklore.
MARX UNDERSTANDS
A systemic accountability engine. Input a personal experience. Receive a structural translation — the institutional agents and forces that produced it.
KALAMAZOO
Home ground. The city where the work is made, indexed as a production site — because the machinery is easiest to study where you live inside it.
THE SINS OF KALAMAZOO
Carl Sandburg's 1920 poem rebuilt as a slow immersive reverie — smokestacks, fog, the bronze hounds on the public square. A city's self-mythology, read at walking speed.
THE FRIABLE COMPACT II
An interactive reckoning with the Upjohn pharmaceutical legacy: the 1886 friable pill, Panalba, Halcion, and the side effect that became Minoxidil. The river keeps the receipts.