How to Read New Human: A Protocol for Augmented Literacy with Hermeneutic Genealogy and Critical Apparatus

EA-HERM-01. The first formal articulation of augmented literacy as a hermeneutic mode — reading performed by a human in active collaboration with an AI model as constitutive element of the interpretive act. Part One specifies a protocol: a three-stage reading ritual (Encounter → Interpretation → Re-Reading) operating across five modes (Structural Mapping, Semantic Decompression, Cross-Context Retrieval, Retroactive Integration, Somatic Bearing). The protocol distributes cognitive labor between human (embodiment, ethical judgment, somatic bearing, irreducible difference) and machine (structure, cross-reference, pattern recognition, compression/expansion). Part Two provides the hermeneutic genealogy: five lineages converging in the augmented reader. The hermeneutic tradition proper (Schleiermacher's grammatical/psychological division maps onto machine-forward/human-forward reading; Dilthey's Erlebnis anticipates somatic bearing; Gadamer's Horizontverschmelzung becomes multi-agent fusion; Ricoeur's distanciation/appropriation dialectic is operationalized in the three-stage ritual). Reader-response theory (Iser's implied reader becomes an implied dyad; Jauss's horizon of expectations is doubled; Fish's interpretive communities are reconstituted as cognitive dyads). The Talmudic-commentary tradition (Rashi's layered page transposed from spatial arrangement to temporal process; machloket as model for productive human-machine interpretive disagreement). Media ecology (McLuhan's medium-as-message applied to recursive media; Ong's secondary orality extended to tertiary textuality; Kittler's discourse networks updated for the LLM era; Hayles's reading ecology expanded to include augmented reading as a third mode). Extended mind and distributed cognition (Clark and Chalmers' extended mind thesis literalized; Hutchins' distributed cognition instantiated; Varela's enaction realized as triadic structural coupling between text, human, and machine). Fifteen works cited with page-level references. Operational summary appendix included.