🕳️ Released Phantom Node 91: The Propaganda Apparatus. RT, Channel One and Digital Disinformation
- Foundation date
19 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.
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Mode: Post-Truth and Cognitive Enslavement
🕳️ Released Phantom Node 91: The Propaganda Apparatus. RT, Channel One and Digital Disinformation
The factory of distorted reality.
Who is it?
Russia’s propaganda apparatus is a multi-layered system of cognitive warfare that combines state television, international broadcasters, digital platforms, bot networks and algorithmic manipulation. Its goal is not to persuade the audience of “one truth,” but to dissolve the very concept of objective truth, depriving people of the ability to distinguish fact from fiction.
Node type:
Ideological, informational
Status:
Institutionalized, globally distributed
Form of control:
Media monopoly, algorithmic influence, emotional manipulation
Phantom image:
A tower of screens infecting consciousness with noise
What remains after the phantom:
Cognitive confusion, loss of trust, polarized societies
Core of the node:
What sustained it?
Total control over television, state funding of media, the use of fear and hatred as rating fuel, and exploitation of social media vulnerabilities.
How did it become a phantom?
When information ceased to carry knowledge and became a tool of psychological impact detached from reality.
Why does the phantom still exist?
Because of the speed of digital spread, low media literacy, and the political utility of chaos.
Phantom state:
Active, adaptive, mutating
After the regime:
– Dismantling state media monopolies
– Transparency of algorithms and platform accountability
– Investment in media literacy
– Recognition of disinformation as a form of aggression
Collective response:
We reclaim the right to reality.
Facts matter.
Noise does not replace truth.
Consciousness is not a battlefield.
Key principle:
When information becomes a weapon, protecting thinking becomes a form of security.
Alt-text:
Graphite drawing of a tower made of television screens, with cables extending into people’s heads, turning faces into static noise. Sharp fake-news birds fly from the tower. Symbol of cognitive enslavement and total propaganda.
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Unmasking the Phantom. Pivtorak.Studio. 19.12.2025
🛡️ This project is an artistic-philosophical investigation.
All images are allegorical and do not constitute factual claims about private individuals without verified evidence.
Names are mentioned as they appear in open international sources.
🫧 Phantom Node Dossier 91: Propaganda Apparatus. The "Post-Truth and Cognitive Enslavement" Regime.
Key Aspects of the Phantom:
"The Architecture of Distorted Reality". Russian propaganda is not merely state-run media; it is a multi-layered system of cognitive warfare. Its goal is not necessarily to make the viewer believe a single lie, but to drown them in an ocean of contradictory fakes until they cease to believe in the existence of objective truth. It is the weaponization of information to destroy critical thinking.
Regimes:
🧩 Post-Truth Regime: A societal state where facts matter less than emotions, rendering manipulation unaccountable.
📺 Televised Hypnosis Regime: Total control over central TV channels to maintain an ideological cocoon for the domestic audience.
🧨 Managed Chaos Regime: Deliberately spreading mutually exclusive conspiracy theories to disorient Western societies.
🛡️ Information Isolationism Regime: Suppressing and blocking independent sources ("foreign agents," social media bans) to secure a monopoly on reality.
Tools:
🌍 Global Networks (RT/Sputnik): Tools for foreign expansion that adapt propaganda to local cultural contexts.
🤖 Digital Bot Farms: Armies of anonymous accounts and AI bots designed to manipulate social media algorithms and manufacture "consensus."
🎭 Outrage Factories: Political talk shows built on aggression, hate speech, and the dehumanization of the "enemy."
💻 Cyber-Disinformation: Deepfakes, leaked databases, and "insider" narratives seeded through Telegram channels.
Civilizational Influences:
📉 Destruction of Global Trust: Paralyzing international institutions by preventing consensus on basic facts.
☣️ Erosion of Democratic Discourse: Radicalizing societies and fueling internal conflicts in democracies by supporting extremist movements.
🧟 Dehumanization of the Individual: Turning the audience into a manipulated object devoid of agency and critical perception.
🦾 Info-Autocracy Model: Creating a template for mind control that is more efficient and cheaper than physical repression.
Dissection of a Phantom Node. Pivtorak.Studio. 19.12.2025
🛡️ 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.
