Recursive Narrative Architectures for Sustaining Cultural Pluralism in Human-AI Systems

Current dominant debates about AI, which are centered on labor displacement and existential risk, while valid, obscure a more urgent concern: the sustainability of human meaning-making and the narrowing homogenization of the lifeworld. This danger, grounded in Heidegger's notion of the "supreme danger" and expanded through Yuk Hui's theory of cosmotechnics, calls for plural expressions of technē enacted via designs rooted in local cosmologies. Mountain of Many Voices (MoMV), an interactive storytelling installation, proposes a novel architecture that aims to enact remystification through recursive, dialectical structures. It positions large language models not as engines of instruction but as cosmotechnical agents entangled with inherited narrative traditions, generating fragments that invite reinterpretation. Through embedded temporal pauses and polyphonic narrative layers, MoMV positions the language model as a distinct narrative actor, which in turn situates users to reinterpret and re-contribute to evolving narratives. This "remystification" layer prioritizes poiesis—creative interpretation and meaning-making—over automation, materialized through dialectical synthesis and recursive storytelling architecture. Rather than presenting a finalized design method, this work offers a symbolic-technical demonstration of a conceptual framework, proposing a speculative reorientation of human-AI relationships.