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  Beyond the Red Herring and Falsifying Predicates of “AI Plagiarism”: Temporal Provenance, Living Authorship, and Eschatological Technics through the Time-Bearing Unification of Subject and Object Douglas Blake Olds Summer, 2026 [1] [This article was prepared with editorial assistance from ChatGPT under the Lawnmower Rule: the tool remained ministerial rather than agentic and idolatrous. Its author is accountable for every sentence unless specifically attributed to outside sources.] Abstract This essay develops a metaphysics of authorship grounded in lived duration, embodiment, recollection, conative judgment, corrigibility, and responsibility, joining it to a political economy of archival enclosure and downstream suspicion. Against both permissive claims that AI is only a tool and prohibitionist claims that any AI assistance nullifies authorship, it distinguishes ministerial editorial technics from administrative and agentic systems by asking what kind of bearer can truthfull...