Writing

Publications

Luke F. Walton's academic papers, and what academics have written about his work. The papers live at Writing → Academic; this page is the reference list. For magazine and radio Q&A see Interviews.

Authored

The Decision No One Authored

The Answerability Gap in Generative AI

Answerability Quartet · paper 1 · July 2026

Before any rule meets any case, someone must answerably settle the evaluative frame a system operates within — authorship, distinct from and prior to meaningful human control.

The Captured Oracle

Authorship and Agency in the Ethics of Answer-Engine Optimization

Answerability Quartet · paper 2 · July 2026

When an answer engine voices a verdict with no visible author, covert optimization authors the frame — and no one answers for the public that acts on it.

The Invariant of Answerability

Answerability Quartet · paper 3 · June 2026

Answerability is route-indefeasible: interposing a machine changes who must answer, not whether an answer is owed.

Building Answerable AI

Why Automation Needs Owned Error

Answerability Quartet · paper 4 · June 2026

The constructive builder response in the Answerability Quartet: answerability as an enabling condition for automation that can compound without drifting.

Scholarship on the work

Academic writing about the work — not by Luke, about him.

Masks, Monsters, and Memes

In Conversation with Scoobert Doobert

Max Horwich · Critical Meme Reader: Global Mutations of the Viral Image · 2021

Max Horwich's 2021 book chapter on Scoobert Doobert in the Institute of Network Cultures' Critical Meme Reader, the academic excavation that predates most of this archive.