Obsolete by Michael Lauria is published 23 September 2026  ·  See the catalogue
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Every title in print.

Two imprint lines. The books of Michael Lauria, published in hardcover, paperback and digital editions, and the Architect corpus, thirty-six titles read as one structured system. All ISBNs are issued from the imprint prefix 978-1-918543.

Michael Lauria

Obsolete

In print

Who Are You When the Machine Can Do It All, and Death Is Optional?

Published 23 September 2026  ·  Michael Lauria

For all of human history, two things arrived together: the day you had had enough of your life, and the body's silent permission to leave it. That mercy is being engineered away.

Written from the chair beside the hospice bed. Artificial intelligence is stripping out function decades early while longevity science pushes death out of reach, and the result is a room almost nobody has been prepared to sit in. Not a warning about machines. A map of the room they leave you alone in.

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How to Be Michael Jackson

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The Pattern Beneath the Performance

Published 2026  ·  Michael Lauria

He died of the operating system that required propofol. The system worked exactly as designed. It produced the greatest entertainer of the twentieth century. It also killed him on schedule.

A depth-psychological reading of the most documented working life in popular music, by a therapist with twenty years in private practice. Not a biography and not a defence. A structural account of what the pattern required, what it produced, and what it cost.

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The Architect

Thirty-six titles in three Movements. Each book stands alone, or the movement can be taken whole, the way it was built to be read. The corpus is published and sold through its own library.

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Movement I: The Dismantling

12 titles

Where the false self is taken apart. The inherited scripts, the borrowed roles, the quiet compromises never agreed to on purpose.

  • Before Approaching the Threshold978-1-918543-00-1
  • Why The Architect978-1-918543-02-5
  • Compromise: The Ultimate Betrayal978-1-918543-04-9
  • The Accountability Problem978-1-918543-06-3
  • The Excalibur Trinity978-1-918543-01-8
  • The Death of the Savior978-1-918543-09-4
  • Sacrifice: The Pattern Beneath All Patterns978-1-918543-03-2
  • Against Nuance: The Betrayal of Clarity978-1-918543-07-0
  • The Choice Is Always Yours978-1-918543-05-6
  • The Space978-1-918543-11-7
  • The Descent of the Hero978-1-918543-12-4
  • On Voice, Integrity, and the Masculine Frame·

Movement II: The Managed World

12 titles

Where the machinery becomes visible. The curated reality, the captured institutions, the managed sacred that trained the self just taken apart.

  • The Curated Reality978-1-918543-88-9
  • The Managed Sacred978-1-918543-89-6
  • The Managed Past978-1-918543-90-2
  • The Captured Consciousness978-1-918543-91-9
  • The Architecture of Money978-1-918543-92-6
  • The Institutional Capture978-1-918543-93-3
  • The Inherited Contract978-1-918543-94-0
  • The Most Sacred Vow978-1-918543-95-7
  • The Relational Cage978-1-918543-96-4
  • The Captured Vessel978-1-918543-97-1
  • The Perception of Sovereignty978-1-918543-98-8
  • The Codex: The Unexamined Reality978-1-918543-99-5

Movement III: The Reconstruction

12 titles

Where the ground is built again and held. A sovereign body, voice and calling, and a coherent life that stands under weight.

  • Sovereign Ground978-1-918543-19-3
  • The Sovereign Body978-1-918543-20-9
  • The Sovereign Voice978-1-918543-21-6
  • The Sovereign Calling978-1-918543-22-3
  • The Coherent Relation978-1-918543-23-0
  • The Coherent Making978-1-918543-24-7
  • The Coherent Exchange978-1-918543-25-4
  • The Coherent Commons978-1-918543-26-1
  • The Sacred978-1-918543-27-8
  • The Coherent Life978-1-918543-28-5
  • One Man to Another978-1-918543-29-2
  • The Codex978-1-918543-30-8

In preparation

Eleven further titles by Michael Lauria, with ISBNs allocated and publication dates to be announced.