Philip K. Dick
The Black Iron Prison / VALIS (b+a)
A supra-temporal cognitive control structure; 'the Empire never ended.' Lens on the bot-dominated internet + LLM epistemic capture + simulation. Documented 2-3-74 experience (partial a); (c)-flag against literal reading.
Also in The Apex in Literature & Philosophy
Isaac AsimovPsychohistory / Foundation — the recursion (b)C.S. LewisThe Conditioners / Abolition of Man (b)J.R.R. TolkienThe Machine / the One Ring (b)Frank HerbertThe Butlerian Jihad (b)Rudolf SteinerAhriman / the machine-swarm (a)Martin HeideggerGestell / standing-reserve (b)Michel FoucaultBiopower / the Panopticon (b)Friedrich NietzscheThe Last Man (b)