The Mythotechnic Construction of Immortality: Archival Resurrection, Synthetic Ascension, and Authority Beyond Death

This conceptual article develops the Mythotechnic Construction of Immortality: the sociotechnical process through which physical, archival, memorial, behavioral, relational, institutional, authoritative, reconstitutive, synthetic, conscious, and theological continuities are assembled and recognized as survival beyond death. The article introduces a ten-form Immortality Continuum, Reconstitutive Immortality, the Immortality Equivalence Error, the Continuity–Identity Gap, the Conservation–Identity Gap, Synthetic Ascension, the Eternalization Threshold, and the Immortality Authority Loop. It distinguishes the persistence of matter and energy from bodily reconstruction, restored consciousness, and the possible continuity of soul or spirit. Jesus Christ serves as a theological boundary comparator: Christian Resurrection and Ascension claim the transformed continuation and enduring authority of the same living person, not merely archival preservation or technological simulation. The article examines when engineered immortality becomes dark authority through deceptive identity claims, unequal access, institutional dependency, reconstructed command, and restricted ethical reopening. Martinez’s Mythotechnic Fiction is treated as a constructed interpretive laboratory for theory generation rather than empirical proof.