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# docxology:generated-document SKILL.md; ownership=explicit-manifest
name: "Blakean Entomology: Small Lives, Uncertain Bodies, and the Work of Attention"
description: "How do Blake's small lives make another being's needs matter? This article argues that provision, feeding and aggregation give different forms to that question: help can enable another life, appetite can use it, and a collective body can redistribute..."
tags: ["william-blake", "digital-humanities", "entomology", "source-provenance"]
domain: "Entomology"
citation: "Daniel Ari Friedman (2026). *Blakean Entomology: Small Lives, Uncertain Bodies, and the Work of Attention*. Zenodo."
doi: "10.5281/zenodo.23900582"
artifact_doi: "10.5281/zenodo.23900583"
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# Blakean Entomology: Small Lives, Uncertain Bodies, and the Work of Attention

**Daniel Ari Friedman** (2026) · Entomology

## Context

This work addresses topics in **Entomology**: William Blake, digital humanities, entomology, source provenance.

## Methods

Primary methods and techniques applied in this work:

- **Copy-specific close reading** — Read poems, selected historical scans and bounded prophetic/prose passages while retaining rival interpretations and biological-identification limits.
- **Reproducible concordance with contextual review** — Use a broad concordance as a retrieval surface and distinguish candidates from individually adjudicated readings.

## Key Findings

Core contributions and results:

- The contextual ledger contains 47 authored decisions; 35,992 candidates remain unreviewed.
- The numerical retrieval scope does not establish animal prevalence or complete-oeuvre coverage.

Methods and findings are summarized from the full text; each item is backed by a verbatim quote recorded in `metadata.json` (`evidence`, `key_findings_evidence`).

## Related Works

- [2026_StatesChange](../2026_StatesChange/)
- [2026_MappingWilliamBlake](../2026_MappingWilliamBlake/)

## Validation

Verification points for this work:

- Canonical DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23900582
- PDF SHA-256: fc99a3dd629646a6e7cb1b41e0b6290388cbb4a09d7c0f91526e0c413dddf73a
- Pairing confidence: needs_review
- Last checked: 2026-11-05T01:42:21Z
- Artifact DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23900583

## Prerequisites

- Familiarity with William Blake, digital humanities, entomology
- Background in Entomology fundamentals
- Access to source repository: docxology/Blakean_Entomology

## Instructions

When working with this paper:

1. Reference the DOI for citation: `10.5281/zenodo.23900582`
2. Apply methods listed in the Methods section for related analysis.
3. Validate findings against the original PDF and metadata.