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7PartSelf Publishing is an independent imprint for the books, research, and music of David Lawrence Eagle. Its intellectual center is A General Study of Architecture (AGSA): a cumulative investigation of the relations that make possible existence, organization, continuity, and transformation intelligible across domains.
Its ambition is not to replace the sciences with a single new story, but to ask what their apparently different subjects may disclose about architecture.
Why this publishing house exists
The purpose of 7PartSelfPublishing.com is to give an evolving body of independent work one coherent and navigable home: an entry into the books, a record of how their ideas developed, a place to encounter the diagrams and mathematical plates that accompany them, and a distinct space for music and remembrance.
Each publication can be read on its own; together they form a historical sequence. Questions raised in one work become conditions for the next. The site preserves that sequence rather than treating the catalogue as unrelated titles or pretending that later arguments were already established at the beginning.
Readers can discover the work, follow its architectural development, examine selected visual material, and reach the published editions. The site is not a substitute for the complete books, and a proposal made in a book is not presented here as an experimentally established result.
Our slogan and methodology
Before introducing additional entities, new primitives, or explanatory worlds, examine whether the relationships, constraints, boundaries, histories, and transformations already at hand have been adequately described.
This is a discipline of inquiry, not a prohibition on discovery. If observation demands a new distinction, the architecture must be able to bear it. If an apparent difference dissolves when a system is examined at a different scale or boundary, the explanation should not grow more complicated merely to defend that difference.
In AGSA, subject matter is instrumental; primitive architecture is primary. Physics, biology, development, and human experience are not interchangeable; they are different testing grounds in which claims of structural correspondence must earn their place.
The research program
The original inquiry concerned the apparent continuity of a human self amid changing experience. That question led from psychology and systems-based identity toward a wider problem: What architecture allows anything to emerge, organize, remain recognizable through change, or become otherwise?
The Ontological Language of Possible Existence (OLPE) introduced six primitive glyphs—C, E, O, I, LoP, and TM—within a recursively closed sequence: C → E → O → I → LoP → TM → C. Among these, O addresses Organization, I addresses Invariance, LoP names the Locus of Possibility, and TM names the Transformation Mediator. Later work makes explicit that the return to C can be transformed by history, without creating a seventh primitive.
Later books place aspects of this inherited language under pressure through concrete scientific and comparative test cases. The test domains provide evidence, limits, and opportunities for failure; they are not simply illustrations enlisted to confirm an answer already known. The ongoing methodological burden is to distinguish genuine preserved structure from analogy.
View the AGSA orientation and six glyph plates →Books and publications
SELF develops the conceptual 7-Part Structural Model of Self, approaching identity as an organized, historically continuous, relational process rather than an isolated psychological component. The related 7PSS monograph presents a more formal systems-based specification and a research program for studying that framework.
The three volumes of OLPE I, OLPE II, and OLPE III establish the primitive glyphs, develop a compositional grammar and ontological method, then carry that method into applications, development, and reference. The intention is to expand expressive and analytical capability without casually multiplying the primitive alphabet.
BOSON examines a physical test domain; CELL investigates biological organization; QUANTUM tests invariance and continuity using selected quantum cases; and EMBRYO examines developmental thresholds and transformation. Their subjects differ; the discipline of separating scientific description from architectural interpretation remains constant.
BOOK X asks what could legitimately require an architectural extension, insisting on discriminating tests rather than additions made by preference. CRUCIBLE brings rival accounts of human selfhood into a structured comparative setting without erasing their differences or treating comparison as automatic proof.
PERSISTENCE CONJECTURE advances the conjecture that whatever persists is necessarily recursive. Its twelve mathematical plates accompany the argument across chapters, separating an ambitious scale-neutral proposal from a theorem already demonstrated. Here, persistence is examined through recursiveness; the general search for primitive architecture remains a distinct but related inquiry.
A distinct creative space
The imprint also houses original music and a dedicated memorial archive. Music is presented as an independent creative practice, not as another AGSA test domain. It gives room to ordinary life, social pressure, estrangement, resilience, and human connection without asking a song to function as a philosophical proof.
The Music node includes independent releases PANIC and SISYPHUS, the three-part sequence BITTER, AFTERLIGHT, and MORNING PEOPLE, and a tribute to Max that preserves his musical performance alongside a structural listening comparison.
Listen, read lyrics, and visit Max’s memorial →