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Publication entries
Peer-reviewed work, chapters, and manuscript-stage research with status kept visible.
Scholarship, strategy, and systems
Tracing how power gets authorized, documented, and lived.
Martin Lepage is a Montreal-based scholar, writer, and AI governance strategist working across AI governance, digital culture, ritual studies, and public writing.
Across advisory work, scholarship, and essays, the throughline is legitimacy: how systems become credible, how authority is made reviewable, and what people experience once those structures harden into practice.
- PhD, Religious Sciences
- AI governance strategy
- Public scholarship
- English and French
Overview
One public surface, several modes of work.
Martin Lepage is a Montreal-based scholar, writer, and AI governance strategist whose work moves between AI governance, qualitative research, and public writing.
Martin’s practice links governance, research, and authorship through one recurring question: how do systems authorize power, and how do people live inside them once they become real?
That question appears here in AI governance work, ritual and media analysis, books and long-form essays.
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Project records
Governance, book-stage, and digital work kept distinct instead of flattened into one category.
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Essays and notes
Public criticism and long-form writing shaped for readers outside strictly academic settings.
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Talks and sessions
Conference appearances, research presentations, and public-facing speaking gathered in one place.
Mode of work
Governance advisory
Documentation-first AI governance work for teams that need clearer approvals, risk framing, and decision traceability.
Mode of work
Interpretive research
Qualitative analysis across ritual, media, gender, legitimacy, and the lived texture of institutions.
Mode of work
Books and essays
Long-form writing that keeps theory, atmosphere, and public argument in the same frame.
Featured publications
Research across ritual, gender, media, and governance.
Academic work with publication status kept visible and plain.
Article manuscript
Magic After Legitimacy: Witchcraft, Sisterhood, and the Work of Power in Charmed
Manuscript in circulation · Manuscript in circulation
An article-length reading of Charmed as a fantasy of female power that is symbolically affirmed yet structurally overburdened, contained, and never fully supported.
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Queerness and Transgender Identity: Negotiations in the Pagan Community of Montreal
Studies in Religion / Sciences Religieuses · Published journal article
A study of how queer and transgender identities are negotiated, recognized, and contested inside Montreal pagan communities.
View recordProjects
Selected projects across governance, books, and digital work.
A mixed archive that keeps status, format, and audience visible instead of collapsing everything into one bucket.
Active governance project
2026
govern-ai
A governance practice environment for AI oversight, traceability, and public-facing clarity
Founder, writer, and builder
A governance-focused build that translates AI oversight concerns into working structures, practical artifacts, and a clearer institutional interface.
View projectSelf-published book on Amazon
Alchemy of the Wound
Field Manual for the Body
Author
A self-published book framed as a field manual for the body, documented here without inventing edition details not yet supplied.
View projectWriting
Essays, criticism, and public-facing argument.
A writing archive that keeps theory, atmosphere, and argument close together without requiring academic framing to stay rigorous.
March 4, 2026 1 min read
What Governance Needs from Ritual Theory
A short bridge essay arguing that governance often fails when it ignores ceremony, recognition, and symbolic thresholds in institutional life.
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February 20, 2026 1 min read
Notes from Hex A. Decimal
A short public note on the writing atmosphere behind the Hex A. Decimal Substack profile: glitch-born essays, haunted systems, and a refusal of empty optimization.
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Talks and media
Conference sessions, research presentations, and public-facing appearances.
2018
La magie, la sorcière et les ritualités identitaires néo-païennes: intermédialité de la transgression
86th ACFAS Congress · Conference presentation
2017
Ritualités queer néo-païennes: enjeux méthodologiques liés à l'expérience et au récit
85th ACFAS Congress · Conference presentation
2014
Ritualités et performativité du genre: le cas du néopaganisme à Montréal
82nd ACFAS Congress · Conference presentation
Resume and CV
Downloadable, readable, and aligned with the public profile.
The resume route gathers governance, research operations, teaching, archival work, and recent clinical coordination into one compact document.
Contact
For governance, research, speaking, or editorial work.
Email is the simplest way to reach Martin. Public links below point to the wider writing and research footprint.
Direct
- Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- martinlepage.ai@gmail.com