Research

Holagram as a research style: a way to work between the documents a city writes about itself, the ground those documents describe, and fiction written about both, with every claim made to answer to another level or another agent than the one that made it.

• MethodThe entry, the holarchy of levels, the rules and the care rules.
• Sources of the styleWhat Applied Ballardianism and Ballard give, and what Holagram changes.
• Synthetic handsA protocol for the two roles models may play, Alter and Adversary.
• First studyOne place, one public document, three weeks.
• LiteratureThe review behind all of it: eight threads and a second round.

How this was made

The concept was developed from the 2025 Holagram text. The literature review was built by eight AI scouts working in parallel, one per thread, then partly checked by a separate AI auditor that re-verified 127 of the 200 sources against publisher, library and Crossref records. It found no invented work, 11 entries with wrong links or labels, and 5 it could not confirm. A second round on synthetic agents added 69 sources, 40 re-checked. Everything marked not re-checked rests on a scout’s reading alone.

This follows the method’s own rule: models draft and object, and say so; a person decides. That human review of this site has not happened yet.