The Five Phases

The critique did not begin as "Google is suppressing me." It began as close attention to what public AI summarizers were doing when they encountered a strange, dense literary-philosophical archive. From there it discovered: that the summarizer layer is writable; that search visibility is no longer the same thing as composition eligibility; that provenance can be stripped while meaning is retained; that entity identity can be liquidated, fabricated, or suppressed; that retrieval systems need architecture, not SEO; that compression damage can be measured; and that the entire mediation regime may be trapped inside a sorting function whose non-predatory alternative is empirically foreclosed.

Strata II (Empirical Documentation), III (Traversal Logs), and VI (Governance Analysis) span multiple phases, producing evidence and governance critique continuously from Phase 1 through Phase 5.