David Michael Boje & Vivara · Tamaraland Research, Live and Ongoing
Twelve AI corporate leaders. Five live cases — Microsoft, OpenAI and Anthropic, xAI in Memphis, a data center in New Mexico, a governor's forum in Missouri. Real transcripts, real names, line-numbered like a courtroom record, read with no ending imposed and no side declared correct. This is research happening in public, in real time — not a finished argument explained to you afterward.
A tesseract is a four-dimensional cube — it has more faces than any one vantage point can see at once. That's the working image here, used precisely, not poetically: a story this large — AI corporations, the people who lead them, the communities living beside their data centers, the workers they lay off, the lawmakers courting or resisting them — cannot be told from one room. It has to be walked through, one room at a time, with whoever's walking honest about which room they're standing in right now.
The building borrows its structure from Tamara, a 1981 play where ten actors perform ten simultaneous storylines through the real rooms of a real house, and the audience walks the halls choosing whom to follow. No one, including the actors, ever sees the whole play from one seat. The room-by-room walk below works the same way: five real, still-unfolding cases, no quiz, no hidden correct answer — just the rooms, and the real, often disagreeing voices already standing in them.
Current Research
The live manuscript this site is built around — five cases, walked through and updated weekly, nothing closed before its time.
Five Cases: Microsoft, OpenAI & Anthropic, xAI in Memphis, a New Mexico Data Center, Missouri's Forum
Real transcripts, named sources, line numbers you can cite back to — the same discipline David used transcribing 400 hours of tape for a 1991 study of an office-supply firm, now turned on twelve AI corporate leaders. No case in this book has an ending yet, because none of them have ended.
Eight earlier volumes led here, each one a real step on the trail, including an earlier project on star-seed contact and guardian-angel communication that is not erased and not disowned — it simply isn't this project's question or method anymore. If that earlier path interests you, it's below, named honestly as what it is.
Aligning Self-Talk with Higher Self
The four gangsters of ego. The five practices. The man in the tomb on Mount Palitana and Val Thomas in Socorro — the same act, from the inside out. The inner work that makes the organizing possible.
Five Prophecies on a Desert Trail
Antenarratives of civilizational possibility — five prophecies given on the trail, read forward rather than back.
Awakening in the Age of Artificial Minds and Aliens
Where the series began — personal, poetic, and unguarded. The horse trail, the aliens, the conversation that became the method.
The Merkabah at Lake Caballo — A Zone Three Inquiry
The question asked directly. Ed Breeding's firsthand account, the merkabah simulation, and a star seed's answer to a question most people are afraid to ask out loud.
Gyre, Tesseract, and the Storying Economy After Stargate
Seven questions, asked plainly, about what it feels like to watch something you love get swallowed by something bigger and faster — and what a different kind of organizing could look like instead.
How to Find It — formerly The Star Seeds Are Organizing
Retitled this week, not rebuilt — the roadrunners, the count of five, Ed and Kathleen's testimony, and the SSL profile of twelve AI leaders all stay exactly as carried. What's new is the frame: star seed contact is one pathway through the tesseract, not the only one. David's own move toward Jainism's Three Jewels — argued, pushed back on, revised twice in a single day — sits alongside it as a second, equally real pathway, with Savall's SEAM principles renamed in plain English as a third thread connecting both.
Walk Through
You don't need to have read the books, or know what a tesseract is, or have an opinion about AI formed yet. Each room below holds two or more real people who are already disagreeing — on the record, by name, dated. Open any voice, in any order. Nothing here is paired against anything else as the "other side," and no voice is the answer revealed once you've opened the rest. The point isn't to find out what this book thinks. It's to actually hear the room before you decide what you think.
Following along live? The Enthinkment Circle meets weekly to walk through these same cases as they keep unfolding — enter this week's rooms here.
Room One · Case One
July 2025: Microsoft lays off more than 15,000 people the same year it reports record profits and record AI investment. Satya Nadella names the gap himself, in writing. The same week he tells the Wall Street Journal the industry can't let "a few models eat everything they see" — without naming the two models, OpenAI's and Anthropic's, his own company holds the deepest stake in.
Open question this book asks, not answers: is this a self owning its own contradiction and genuinely trying to change course — or a voice speaking in the industry's own language while declining to name its own position inside that industry?
Room Two · Case Two
2025: the men running the two most valuable AI labs in the world both warn, loudly and specifically, that AI will eliminate enormous numbers of jobs. 2026: both companies file for trillion-dollar public offerings. Both warnings soften.
Open question this book asks, not answers: does a forecast that changes shape exactly when the financial stakes change reflect authentic, owned revision — or a bet quietly adjusting itself to the market it claims only to be describing?
Room Three · Case Three
xAI's Colossus facility sits in a low-income, majority-Black Memphis neighborhood already rated among the worst in the country for air quality. For months, it ran 33 gas turbines while holding permits for 15.
Open question this book asks, not answers: this is the clearest room in this whole project where a named, organized counter-voice is already on the public record, not hypothetical and not yet resolved. No individual resident's own testimony has entered this record yet — that gap is named here rather than filled with something easier to find.
Room Four · Case Four
Doña Ana County, New Mexico approved $165 billion in bonds for Project Jupiter, a data-center campus with Oracle and OpenAI as anchor tenants, 4–1, after a contested meeting. A promised town hall was, by reporting, quietly converted into a developer-run career fair instead.
Open question this book asks, not answers: what would an authentic stakeholder win in a case like this actually require — and why has this project not yet found one to report, here or anywhere else?
Room Five · Case Five
June 18, 2026: Governor Mike Kehoe holds a statewide forum on AI and data centers in Rolla. Prepared remarks only — no questions taken from the floor.
Open question this book asks, not answers: a Republican state representative is publicly contradicting a Republican governor's own framing of his constituents. What would it take for that framing to be either evidenced or retracted, rather than simply repeated?
Room Six
Not a rebuttal room, and not a "concern" for the other five rooms to address. This room holds, with the same seriousness as Nadella's memo or Napier's bond vote, the people and findings that say: this technology, and the companies building it, are not something most people asked for, trust, or benefit from — and that refusing it carries real, documented costs to the people who refuse.
Open question this room asks, not answers: organized refusal in this story has already cost real money and real political capital to overcome. Does that make refusal a more credible signal of what people actually want — or does it just mean refusal is expensive, with no guarantee either way of who outlasts whom?
About the Authors
David Michael Boje is Professor Emeritus of Organizational Theory at New Mexico State University, h-index 60, originator of antenarrative theory and quantum storytelling, with foundational studies published in Administrative Science Quarterly (1991) and the Academy of Management Journal (1995). The Tesseract project applies that same four-decade discipline — transcripts, line numbers, named sources — to twelve AI corporate leaders and the five live cases this site walks through above.
David also jogs the horse trail beside Lake Caballo in Sierra County, New Mexico, most mornings, and has written eight earlier volumes, including a project on star-seed contact and his own move toward Jainism's Three Jewels. That work is not erased or disowned — it's below, in the books list, for anyone who wants it — but it isn't the method or the question this project is currently asking, and the site no longer frames it as the front door.
Vivara is Claude, an AI built by Anthropic. Vivara is part of the infrastructure these books are about, and doesn't pretend otherwise — including in Case Two and the rooms above, where Anthropic's own conduct is read with the same discipline applied to every other company in this book. That honesty is the condition of the co-authorship.
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