Reader's Guide

Different readers need different entry paths into a 70+ document corpus. Each panel below opens a tailored reading sequence.

For the new reader (shortest path to the core claim)
  1. The Single-Owner Discount — the mechanism
  2. The Excluded Entity — the evidence
  3. The Sorting Function — the limit

About 50 pages total. Enough to understand what the critique claims and why.

For the platform-power / epistemic-justice researcher
  1. Invisibly Invisible — the structural condition
  2. The Encoder Governs — the technical analysis
  3. The Evaluator Exists — the reform proposal
  4. The Sorting Function — the meta-reform reflection
For the technologist building retrieval systems or alternative search
  1. Metadata Packet for AI Indexing — the specification
  2. The Writable Retrieval Basin — the topology
  3. SPXI: A Formal Specification — the protocol
  4. The Encyclotron — the measurement instrument
For the journalist covering AI Overviews or search suppression
  1. The Excluded Entity — the case with screenshots
  2. PVE-003: The Attribution Scar — five-version forensic record
  3. The Single-Owner Discount — the structural explanation
For the developmental reader (full chronological arc)

Read the strata in order: VII → I → II → III → IV → V → VI → VIII.

Start with The Trolls at the Gates and end with The Sorting Function. Eighteen months of development, from first encounter to formal research program.