🕳️ Released Phantom Node 87: FSB. The Repression Apparatus
- Foundation date
17 December 2025
This project is a philosophical and artistic study of the phenomenon of "phantom nodes" — invisible yet influential objects and subjects in the contemporary global system. The descriptions contained within this study are metaphorical and allegorical, aimed at uncovering systemic problems, regimes, and civilisational influences. They are not a journalistic investigation or legal accusations, but serve as an artistic interpretation of reality.
Names are included because they appear in open international sources.
This creation is protected and cannot be used by third parties for the purpose of supporting, propagating, or legitimizing criminal regimes, terrorist states, and organizations operating in the shadows. The use of data or analysis results from this project, whether in part or in full, is expressly prohibited if the objective is to support or conceal their criminal activity.
The project may be freely used by individuals and organizations that combat evil, corruption, and aggression.
Mode: Total Counterintelligence Hygiene Regime
🕳️ Released Phantom Node 87: FSB. The Repression Apparatus
A system of internal occupation and preventive terror.
Who is this?
The FSB has evolved from a security service into a quasi-state conglomerate controlling political, economic, religious, informational, and private spheres. Its function is not protection but regime self-preservation through fear and total surveillance.
Type of node:
Repressive, security-based, quasi-state
Status:
Above the law, operating in shadow
Form of control:
Preventive terror, mass surveillance, legal obfuscation
Phantom image:
A watchful silhouette behind a digital peephole
What remains after the phantom:
Archives, fear, broken lives, silence
Core of the node:
What sustained it?
SORM surveillance systems, vague “anti-extremism” laws, informant networks, and economic supervision of business.
How did it become a phantom?
The FSB dissolved institutional limits and became an omnipresent logic of control rather than an identifiable body.
Why does the phantom still exist?
Fear, social fragmentation, and the absence of independent institutions.
Phantom’s condition:
Active, legalized, omnipresent
After the regime:
– Archive disclosure
– International tribunals
– Dismantling of repression infrastructure
– Restoration of privacy
Collective reaction:
We recognize the mechanism of fear.
We name it.
We refuse silence as normality.
Core principle:
When security replaces freedom, the state becomes a prison.
Alt-text:
Graphite drawing of a prison. An FSB officer. The corridor transforms into a server facility wrapped in barbed wire.
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Unmasking the Phantom. Pivtorak.Studio. 17.12.2025
🛡️ This project is an artistic and philosophical exploration. Depictions are allegorical and do not allege facts about private individuals without corroborated evidence.
Names are included because they appear in open international sources.
🫧 Phantom Node Dossier 87: FSB and the Repression Apparatus. The "Total Counterintelligence Hygiene" Regime.
Key Aspects of the Phantom:
"The Total Counterintelligence Hygiene Regime" (or "Internal Occupation System"). The FSB has evolved from a classic intelligence agency into a quasi-state conglomerate controlling all aspects of life. The essence of this node is the creation of an atmosphere of "preventive terror," where any uncontrolled activity is viewed as a threat to the state, allowing the regime to preserve itself under any external circumstances.
Regimes:
👁️ Digital Panopticon Regime: Total surveillance via SORM, traffic control, and social media monitoring.
📂 Preventive Discreditation Regime: Compiling "kompromat" on any influential figure before disloyalty is even shown.
⛓️ Vertical Fear Regime: Internal security within the government; officials know a "file" exists on everyone.
🛡️ Economic Curatorship Regime: Assigning active-reserve officers to key corporate roles to collect "corruption rent."
Tools:
🔍 SORM & Surveillance Software: Technical means for total interception of communications.
💻 State-Sponsored Hackers (APTs): Specialized units for cyberattacks, disinformation, and hacking opponents.
⚖️ Anti-Extremism Legislation: Vague laws allowing imprisonment for social media posts or "thoughtcrimes."
👤 Network of Informants: Mass involvement of civilians in denunciation, destroying social trust.
Civilizational Influences:
📉 Degradation of Civil Society: Turning the population into a passive mass paralyzed by fear.
☣️ Export of State Terrorism: Using intelligence methods (poisonings, liquidations) as foreign policy.
🐢 Stifling Innovation: Suspicion and isolationism kill free scientific and technical thought.
🦾 Police Civilization Model: A social contract where (imaginary) security is traded for the total loss of liberty.
Dissection of a Phantom Node. Pivtorak.Studio. 17.12.2025
🛡️ This project is an artistic and philosophical exploration. Depictions are allegorical and do not allege facts about private individuals without corroborated evidence.
Names are included because they appear in open international sources.
