Work Classification Layer
Compare Works
Pick two or more works to set their attribute fingerprints, dimension-by-dimension passages, and shared school embodiments side by side. Especially useful for author-stage comparisons (Wittgenstein early vs late) and for setting a single tradition's foundational texts against each other.
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
Lorde's 1982 "biomythography" — the prose-poetic memoir of her Harlem-Caribbean childhood, the women who shaped her, the becoming of "Zami"
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | Zami: A New Spelling of My Name (Late) |
|---|---|
| Time · Extent | Infinite |
| Time · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Time · Grain | Continuous |
| Time · Freedom | Non-Deterministic |
| Time · Traversability | Non-Linear |
| Time · Dimensionality | One |
| Time · Direction | Bi-directional |
| Space · Extent | Finite |
| Space · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Space · Curvature | Flat |
| Space · Dimensionality | Three |
| Space · Locality | Local |
| Matter · Extent | Infinite |
| Matter · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Matter · Conservation | Conserved |
| Matter · Dimensionality | Three |
| Matter · Locality | Local |
| Observer · Time Instance | Single |
| Observer · Space Instance | Single |
| Observer · Knowledge Extent | Partial |
| Observer · Knowledge Retainment | Total |
| Observer · Physicality | Embodied |
| Observer · Agency | Active |
| Observer · Number | Singular |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | None |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Experience |
| Observer · Theological Method | — |
| Energy · Extent | Infinite |
| Energy · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Energy · Conservation | Conserved |
| Energy · Dispersibility | Irreversible |
| Information · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Information · Cosmic Conservation | Conserved |
| Information · Personal Conservation | Conserved |
| Information · Granularity | Continuous |
Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence
What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.
Time
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
The 1934-1959 first-quarter-century of Lorde's life, narrated in 1982.
Space
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
Harlem, Greenwich Village, Mexico, the Caribbean — Lorde's formative geography.
Matter
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
The embodied Lorde as proper subject of her own biomythography.
Observer
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
Lorde the autobiographer-poet as participant-witness to her own becoming.
Energy
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
The erotic-political energies of Black-lesbian becoming.
Information
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
The narrative-mythological content of the biomythography.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
Zami invented a genre — the "biomythography" — that has since been widely emulated; its centring of erotic and racial-political experience together has remained durable.