Konrad Becker

Digital Uconscious

With The Tactical Reality Dictionary Konrad Becker presents a manual illuminating 72 of the most important terms in "Cultural Intelligence and Social Control." In the "deceitful" order of a dictionary, we find short essays on key concepts from the technical terminology of "cyber-sociology": "Ambiguous Information," "Belief Networks," "Consistent Illusions," etc. Rigorously researched through authentic intelligence sources, this unique document presents shocking insights on the dark underbelly of crypto-psychology, and sheds a completely new light on culture and the media. The individual -- long outpaced by the deluge of information and the power of the media -- is helplessly exposed to propaganda and manipulation. The fear-driven desire for personal security and complete surveillance is contrary to the idea of individual autonomy, but the newest security technologies not only undermine privacy, they force their way into the most intimate and private zones of the individual. "A Leviathan-like scenario where man is forced to abandon his right of self-determination against personal security." But this dictionary can be used differently...."Konrad Becker, like a modern Bruno, offers us a 'Memory Palace' (a dictionary no less) of knowledge about consciousness and its control, whether by self or others, in the age of the post-organic. For fuck's sake, don't leave home without it." -- Hakim Bey

Cultural Intelligence and Social Control

Tactical Reality Dictionary

Vienna-based cultural critic Konrad Becker offers another 72-key manifesto of deep politics and cultural intelligence. Becker unlocks a historical and ideological treasure trove of enslaving memes and pioneer paths to liberation from them.

Deep Politics and Cultural Intelligence

Dictionary of Operations

Literary Nonfiction. Social Science. With his seventy-two keys, Konrad Becker aims to unlock the gates of strategic reality: its construction over centuries, its imposition through stealth and force, its dull and laborious maintenance, and its dissolution and destruction by those who can't take it anymore. The subjects treated here range widely, from Affective Images and Conspired Environments to Hyperreal Estate (a high-profile topic during the credit crunch of 2008), Phantom Induction, Reality Maps, Synthetic Fear, etc. These keys are communicational models of phantasmagoric systems, which unlock and display, for brief moments, the operations of the complex machinery that stealthily attempts to recreate our own perceptions, affects and expressions. Yet unlike the other systems which they so expertly mimic and reduplicate, these have the grace of immediately dissolving into thin air, while durably revealing the smoke and mirrors that appeared to give them substance.

Deep Infopolitics and Cultural Intelligence

Strategic Reality Dictionary

The Future of Computer Arts & the History of the International Festival of Computer Arts, Maribor, 1995-2004

Felix Stalder

Deep Search collects 13 texts which investigate the social and political dimensions of how we navigate the deep seas of knowledge. What do we win, and what do we lose when we move from an analogue to a digital information order? How is computer readable significance produced, how is meaning involved in machine communication? Where is the potential of having access to such vast amounts of information? What are the dangers of our reliance on search engines and are there any approaches that do not follow the currently dominating paradigm of Google? This volume answers these questions of culture, context and classification regarding information systems that should not be ignored.

Konrad Becker

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