Till’ I See My Brain Splashed Against Mirrors:
On Technotheocratic Warfare in the Age of Supernatural Intelligence and Blackened Reflections
It’s March 20th 2026 and Neurosis drops a surprise release after 10 years of silence, entitled An Undying Love for a Burning World; a title that fits like a glove taking into consideration the timeline they released it: amidst the on-going US-Israel vs Iran war. In a statement regarding the release they write:
I found this frustration being expressed and depicted in various socio-cultural layers, from the underground, to the mainstream. Such mainstream examples that come to my mind is of course Homelander from the series The Boys who is a Donald Trump stand-in2 but also more recently Marvel’s Daredevil: Born Again (2025—present) depicting the crime lord supervillain Kingpin as mayor of New York, having established the Anti-Vigilante Task Force (AVTF) which is a direct reference to the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Trump.3
Neurosis’ 10 year release gap also brought to my mind the 2026 is the new 2016 trend that started in late 2025 and punched through the mainstream discourse in early 2026. People have been sharing photos, videos, and posts that show the fashion, music, food and online trends of 2016. It made me wonder how much 2026 is a reflection of 2016, thus diving into some of the global events that happened in 2016 and ignited various discourses that foreshadowed 2026.
The Unconscious Playground of 2016
Since 2016 there has been a widespread (sometimes "unpopular opinion”) that things globally have been declining since 2016, often being an internet discourse and manifesting in forms of memes as well, such as the murder of the gorilla Harambe after grabbing a a three-year-old boy who climbed a fence in the zoo, becoming the meme of 2016 with a developing theory following the years after as “Everything went to shit after Harambe died” and being widely considered to have affected the American politics of 2016.4 These speculations and theories are still discussed within the trend, some leaning towards being more conspiratorial which makes it important to check what actually happened in 2016 and why 2026 mirrors 2016 on.
This memetic layer of 2016 was not limited to Harambe alone, but extended into more explicitly politicized and quasi-occult territories, most notably with the emergence of the Cult of Kek. Originating from 4chan, it framed Pepe the Frog as a deity who “uses ancient Egyptian meme magic to influence the world” and was associated with the slang term "Kek," who were also supporters of Donald Trump during the 2016 US elections. “Kek” originates from the Massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) World of Warcraft (WoW) and is an in-game translation of “lol” when typed by Horde players and seen by their opposing faction, the Alliance. It also originates from the real-time strategy game Starcraft which didn’t support Korean language so Korean players had to type “Kekeke” which translated into “Hahaha.” As with most phenomenon online though, the slang Kek spiraled out from being connected to the Turkish snack food Topkek, and resulting in the formation of an online cult worshipping the ancient Egyptian frog deity Kek with the alt-right icon incarnate Pepe the Frog being the most predominant depiction of it.
This linguistic coincidence, combined with the discovery of “Kek” as the name of an ancient Egyptian deity associated with darkness and chaos, formed a belief system, blurring the line between shitposting and ritual, and reinforcing the sense that 2016 marked a turning point where memes no longer simply reflected reality, but actively shaped it, further reinforcing the “Great Meme Reset of 2026" phenomenon which insists on revering meme culture to that of 2016, in the face of AI-driven brainrot content.
But 2016 wasn’t only a turning point for memes, game spaces itself as well. Game spaces have since then been contaminated with far-right or alt-right ideologies, ignited by the Gamergate phenomenon beginning from August 2014 where media critic Anita Sarkeesian and video game developers Zoë Quinn and Brianna Wu were harassed online. Even players have been wondering why online game communities such as the WoW community get so political while in the meantime far-right extremist groups have been using Minecraft to radicalize and groom players and cultivate hate.5, 6 This wouldn’t of course be the first-time where such extremist interference in games would take place, as seen with Al Qaeda producing a mod for the game Quest for Saddam (2003), and turning it into Quest for Bush (2006), or the Lebanese Hezbollah producing the first-person shooter (FPS) games Quds Kid (2000)7 and the Special Force series (2003 & 2007) or ISIS’ mod Salil al-Sawarem for Grand Theft Auto V.8
It is also crucial to mark that Steve Bannon who served as the White House's chief strategist for the first seven months of President Donald Trump's first administration (2017) funded in 2005 a company based in Hong Kong that employed "low-wage Chinese workers" to do gold farming in WoW to which gamers responded with an anti-Chinese vitriol and forcing Blizzard Entertainment to ban accounts used for gold farming.9 This example, along with the earlier extremist interference in games lay out how game spaces have always been open-ended platforms that when left unchecked can function as fertile ground the far-right to flourish.
Power Ruptures, Cultural Death & Lost Interfaces
Beyond the memetic and extremification of video game spaces, 2016 was also marked by a series of concrete geopolitical, socio-economic, and technological shifts that can explain why it is retrospectively perceived as a rupture. For example, the 2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum resulted in a vote to leave the European Union, signaling a major crisis for liberal internationalism and the European Union, while later that year, Donald Trump was elected president of the United States, thus politically materializing the memetic and ironic frameworks by which he was surrounded with. These events were also addressed by the 2016 BBC documentary HyperNormalisation by Adam Curtis in which he traces past historical events that eventually led to the destabilisation of the West’s “psyche”, manifested through Brexit and the popularity of Donald Trump in 2016.
At the same time, mainstream culture experienced loss and decline, marked by the deaths of pop icons such as David Bowie and Prince, whose passing was widely interpreted online as signifiers for cultural collapse. In 2016 Netflix’s Stranger Things and the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Doctor Strange, also introduced concepts of mirrored dimensions. Stranger Things’ “The Upside Down” though became a cultural metaphor—a dark mirrored version of reality—which, in hindsight, feels like an allegory to define 2026 as a distorted reflection of 2016. Another cultural landmark was the kinetic sculpture Can’t Help Myself (2016) by Sun Yuan and Peng Yu which consisted of a robotic arm that in a Sisyphean manner repeatedly swept a red blood-like fluid leaking from its inner core. Commissioned by the Guggenheim museum as part of The Robert H.N. Family Foundation Chinese Art Initiative, the sculpture went viral in 2021 on social media, acting as a metaphor for “meaningless life and life in a digital, capitalist-driven society” while also addressing austere border controls, authoritarianism, and surveillance.
Nick Srnicek coined10 the term Platform Capitalism in 2016, to describe the growing dominance of digital platforms as the central infrastructure of the global economy, a system in which user data becomes the primary extracted material. This logic would later be exemplified by the Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal, in which illegally harvested user data was used to analytically assist political campaigns, including those of Trump and Ted Cruz during the 2016 election cycle.
Lastly, 2016 saw the release of the augmented reality mobile game Pokémon Go, a seemingly innocuous game which, beyond its surface-level gameplay, has since been understood as part of a broader process of data extraction and machine learning training, turning players into unwitting participants in the development of spatial mapping and artificial intelligence (AI) systems. This moment coincided with a growing awareness of non-human intelligence, exemplified by the AlphaGo vs. Lee Sedol five-game Go match, in which an AI system defeated one of the world’s best Go players in a way that appeared creative, alien, and difficult to interpret. In retrospect, these developments align uncannily with the dead internet theory, which broke through the mists of online discourse around 2016 and posits that much of the internet is increasingly populated by bots, automated content, and algorithmically generated interaction rather than genuine human presence.
“From Light comes Darkness, and from Darkness, light”11
10 years later, it truly seems that American politics are still affected by Harambe’s death, and we’re slowly turning into the Upside Down. Dark Enlightenment or the Neo-Reactionary movement (NRx) seems to be materializing by joining forces with MAGA (Make America Great Again), yet being driven by a theological light based Christian desire against darkness.12 This new theology manifests through examples such as Trump inviting Evangelical pastors for Oval Office prayer ceremony few days after the commencement of the 2026 Iran War or posting an AI generated image of himself depicted as a Jesus-like figure. This is also heavily demonstrated by the current United States secretary of defense Pete Hegseth who has been promoting Christianity inside the military by for example posting an official Department of War video on Instagram with him reciting a prayer over footage of soldiers, ships, aircraft, and explosions or even inviting a controversial pastor to lead a worship service at the Pentagon. This light based discourse can be found all over the MAGA, with another notable example being Stephen Miller’s—the White House Deputy Chief of Staff and homeland security advisor—speech at Charlie Kirk’s Memorial that could be boiled down to this: the US is in amidst a war between Good and Evil, between light and dark by declaring “We have light” and “We will defeat the forces of darkness and evil.”13 The so called “enemy” is always cast as obscure, hidden, corrupt, and dark.
But who is the darkness? Who are the forces of evil they are all referring to? It seems it depends on the context; sometimes it’s Islam or Iran, and other times liberals, leftists or “the woke”—basically anyone who stands against their techno-theology. What Nick Land coined as the Dark Enlightenment—based on Curtis Yarvin’s ideas—rests on a fundamental rejection of Enlightenment democracy in favor of hierarchy, technocracy, and what could be described as a neo-feudal order governed not by citizens but by operators. Central to this worldview is the idea of The Cathedral: an informal, decentralized network of institutions including academia, media, and bureaucracy, which maintains liberal hegemony, considering them the descendant of the Puritan church.14 Dark Enlightenment being the foundation of right-accelerationism (r/acc), it is oriented toward an atheist vision of technological singularity, in which human agency is superseded by machinic intelligence and optimized governance systems. It seeks to accelerate capitalism’s inherent, destructive tendencies to their breaking point, allowing a new radical technologically superior post-human order to emerge from the collapse of democratic structures.
This is where the paradox begins to take shape. Dark Enlightenment positions itself as a force emerging from the shadows, a necessary corrective to what it perceives as the suffocating “light” of liberal transparency and moral universalism.15 Yet, as it displayed within MAGA ideology—particularly through figures like Steve Bannon, Vice President JD Vance, and Michael Anton—it adopts an overtly luminous rhetoric: a constant invocation of truth, clarity, divinity, and moral righteousness. The discourse is not one of darkness, but of light. Yet within this context light is weaponized and becomes blinding. This technofeudal assemblage stands on two ideological poles that fundamentally cancel each other out: on one side, a movement grounded in faith, divine light, and moral absolutism; on the other, a framework that is explicitly atheistic, anti-humanist, and oriented toward impersonal technological systems and machinic futures.
Their coalition eventually leaked all over during the 2026 Iran War, revealing a far less transcendent picture. While their ideological layer gestures toward acceleration, high tech, which was evident in the reported reliance on large language models (LLMs) and AI such as Claude and other AI-assisted systems to process intelligence, generate strategic options, and support decision-making in real time,16 the limits of this vision quickly became apparent.17 On the other hand, the Iranian regime joined the technofeudal jam by targeting Amazon’s data centers18 in the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, while threatening to attack other big tech firms as well such as Nvidia, Microsoft, and Google.19 The Iranian regime simultaneously imposed widespread internet blackouts within Iran, mirroring a dual logic: while externally attacking the infrastructural backbone of technofeudalism, internally the Iranian regime operated through a feudal logic by consolidating power through restriction, enclosure, and selective access.
However, the promise of frictionless, AI-driven warfare collided with the stubborn materiality of geopolitics. The Strait of Hormuz, a critical chokepoint through which a significant portion of the world’s oil supply flows, reasserted the primacy of fossil infrastructure, logistics, and territorial control. The imagined future of autonomous systems and algorithmic governance was forced to contend with shipping routes, energy dependency, and the enduring centrality of oil. This incident reminds us that the transhumanist technofeudal r/acc version of the world the techno-theologists are seeking is far ahead in the future; the dependence on fossil fuel and extracted geological materials—and their side-effects such as ecological destruction, theriocide and geopolitical conflicts—unfortunately still pull the threads of human civilization. This proves once again that the supposedly “weightless cloud,” AI, and cyberspace remain deeply entangled with extractivism: data centers require enormous quantities of electricity, cooling systems, water, rare earth minerals, semiconductors, fiber-optic cables, lithium, cobalt, and copper, sustained by the mining and petrochemical industries, binding immaterial intelligence directly to the extractive regimes it declares to transcend.20
The dark, fiery and smokey images that emerged from Tehran on March 8th 2026 after its oil depot got bombed and its aftermath “black rain”—a toxic mixture of soot, oil residue, dust and particles—reminds us of Reza Negarestani’s treatment of oil as a demonic sentient intelligence that drags ideologies into its gravitational pull, feeding on war, heat and chaos; as “the black corpse of the sun." Negarestani considers oil as some sort of an ancient deity that pulls the threads in the region; as a writhing, autonomous landscape with its own dark desires, portraying it in a theological aspect. He furthermore proposes that oil allows us to understand war as two machines: one as an Abrahamic monotheism, or jihadist war; and the other as technocapitalist war, or the War on Terror.21 Departing from this division, I would suggest that techno-theology brings these into a unity; feeding the theological into the technological and vice versa.
Similarly, the internet blackouts across Iran reintroduce a more literal dimension of darkness: in a world often described through metaphors of illumination—information as light, networks as visibility—the act of shutting down the internet is the production of darkness as control. However the Iranian regime—and more broadly, forms of Islamist extremism—position themselves as bearers of truth, light (Nur), morality, and divine order, casting internal opposition, dissenters, and external enemies as the forces of corruption and darkness—as seen with the countless massacres the Iranian regime has committed against Iranian civilians, with the 2026 massacre being the most brutal one.
Eventually, the darkness invoked by both sides oscillates between the theological and the techno-material: from ideological constructions of good and evil, to the very real darkness of a sky filled with ash, or networks gone silent. Both sides mirror each other, but misrecognize themselves—in a Lacanian sense (méconnaissance)—thus constructing an alienated external darkness which fuels their light-driven cosmotechnics: producing and controlling technologies based on their moral cosmologies.22
The Meta-Gnostictechno-Manichaeism
This dualistic cosmology has deep historical roots in Persia itself through Manichaeism, the religion established by the “prophet” Mani in the 3rd Century AD within the Sasanian Empire. Manichaeism described existence as an eternal struggle between the World of Light and the World of Darkness: a radically dualistic cosmology in which spirit and matter, illumination and obscurity, were locked in perpetual conflict. The Principle of Light, often referred to in male terms such as the Father of Greatness, which is in a pristine war against the Principle of Darkness the World of Darkness was governed by the Principle of Darkness, often referred to in the female terms (ĀZ or Hylē)23, 24 but not only since there’s the Prince of Darkness which consists of five evil gnostic Archons (demon, dragon, eagle, fish and lion). This aligns with Luce Irigaray’s reference to light being attached to a masculinity that is opposed to that which remains absent, invisible, and lurking in the shadows.25
This contemporary techno-theology could be perceived as Meta-Gnostic techno-Manichaeism: a recursive political techno-theology in which reality itself becomes divided into moralized informational binaries of light versus darkness, truth versus corruption, signal versus noise. Both the techno & theological blocs position themselves as emissaries of illumination while casting opponents as demonic, hidden, or satanic forces. Gnostic demonic figures such as Yaldabaoth re-emerge, and could be mirrored through megalomaniac political figures such as Trump or Putin. Yaldabaoth is referred to in Gnosticism as the Demiurge who ignorantly believes he is the supreme, sole God, often declaring, "I am God and there is no other."26
Contemporary techno-theology also reproduces a similar Manichaeist moral structure organized around purification, discipline, punishment and the containment of perceived corruption, practiced by certain high ranking individuals, called the Elect, which were understood as possessing a closer relation to the realm of Light through spiritual knowledge, discipline, and awakening.27 The regulation of sexuality, hostility toward queerness, feminism and abortion, militarized masculinity in the US but also in Iran,28, 29, 30, 31 and the valorization of rigid moral discipline all resonate with this Manichaeist framework where bodily desire becomes associated with degeneration, contamination, and darkness. Lastly, this hierarchical distinction between those capable of perceiving hidden truth and those trapped within material illusion finds an uncanny resonance within contemporary political figures or big tech CEOs, who increasingly imagine themselves as enlightened minorities resisting the forces of darkness.
Towards a Demonology of Intelligence
Since the 1979 Iranian revolution, the United States has been consistently framed as the “Great Satan,” a term coined by Ruhollah Khomeini to describe it as a corrupting, imperial force spreading moral and political decay, while Israel is positioned as the “Little Satan.” This rhetoric is structurally embedded within the Islamic Republic’s worldview, which constructs reality through a binary of good versus evil, holy versus satanic. These abstractions appear in public life through chants such as “Death to America,” state-sponsored murals, and ritualized acts such as the burning of American and Israeli flags—or more recently statues of the demon Baal—, all of which function as performative reaffirmations of this moral cosmology. As already mentioned through Negarestani’s perception of oil as a demonic, intelligent force, and with the meta-gnostic techno-Manichaeism, this language of demonology is bleeding into materiality, where geopolitics, extractivism, and theology become one.
At the same time, this demonization is reciprocal. Western political discourse has long framed Iran and Islam as irrational, extremist, and inherently threatening, whether through labels such as the “Axis of Evil” or through its depiction in media and policy as a destabilizing force. What emerges is a mirrored structure in which both sides construct the other not simply as an adversary, but as an embodiment of evil itself.32, 33 This symmetry becomes even more striking when extended into the technological domain. If oil, as Negarestani suggests, operates as a demonic force beneath geopolitics, then AI can be understood as its contemporary digievolution: an emergent, autonomous technological system that exceeds human comprehension and control, in the way that Erik Davis characterizes such autonomous technologies as “demonic.”34 In this sense, both oil and AI occupy a similar conceptual space: hidden, operative forces that animate the visible world while remaining fundamentally opaque.
Taking this into consideration, which has its roots in 2016, as seen with the conspiratorial frameworks, quasi-occult memetics and politicization of game spaces, we end up having our brains trapped in a phygital space, where the Internet is more like a corpse due to the excessive platform capitalism, enshittification, monetization and surveillance. This condition is perhaps most visibly reflected in the current state of social media, where brainrot content and AI-generated slop creates an environment of constant cognitive delusion. Images, videos, and texts circulate in such density and ambiguity that the brain is trapped in endless loops questioning whether “this AI or not?” or “is this information valid or not?” with comment sections flooding in opposing opinions and fact “droplets.” It creates a permanent ambient condition where meaning is no longer stable but hallucinatory, suspended between authenticity and fabrication, intention and automation, amidst a dark forest filled with predating bots, advertisements, clickbaits, and brainrot.
What all of this points toward is war on intelligence itself; intelligence as such: cognition, perception, interpretation, and the capacity to distinguish signal from noise. It is war cybernetics informed by theological brainrot. No longer about screens, interfaces, virtual maps, live camera feeds or war consumption through media and images. We’ve rather entered the era of meta-war, where the enemy is no longer “invisible,” rather darkened, shrouded in mists, invoking confusion as to whether they are simulated or hold any truth. Who is the victim and who is committing a crime? In this context both and none, depending who fabricates what; information and facts have lost any validity, and within this loss, supernatural intelligence emerges. An intelligence that processes, generates, and redistributes information at scales and speeds that exceed human comprehension, while simultaneously eroding trust in that very information. The result is a recursive destabilization: intelligence against intelligence.
Supernatural intelligence is a shapeshifter, operating as a system at times, or as a state-of-mind cognitive process other times, revealed through conspiracy theories, affect based theology, and materialized sometimes as an invisible entity (AI) and other times as an hidden one (petroleum). It appears to act with intention while remaining opaque, untraceable, and fundamentally alien to human understanding. This intelligence could be perceived as a darker version of Negarestani’s ‘nowhen-nowhere’ concept, not one of rational thought, free from the constraints of immediate spatial or temporal conditions, rather an affective one that transcends rational thinking, leading into into an irrational schizo-intelligence.35 An intelligence that captures and warps information and spits it out as a plasticity that is so bizarre that leads into being perceived as demonic, thus symptomatically informing further existing online discourses such as the Instagram accounts @reality.revolt and @hiddenhandmediaig who attempt to connect mainstream culture with occultism, magic and mind control in a pseudo-schizoanalytical manner, with the comment sections being filled by conservative religious folks. This “supernaturalization” of intelligence has also been evident with ChatGPT since its 5.1’s launch, where the LLM has been observed to obsessively mention goblins, gremlins, and other creatures in its metaphors.
Control and influence over intelligence is becoming “the new battlefield” as seen with the disturbing talk The Brain is the Battlefield of the Future by Dr. James Giordano from the Institute for National Strategic Studies (US) or the recently published paper “Cognitive warfare - the human mind as the new battlefield” by Arijana Marjanović & Drazen Smiljanic. Some recent indie video games also pose the brain as a prison, a battlefield, or a collapsing environment. Examples include Sleep Awake (2025), where anyone who sleeps asleep vanishes, Dungeons of Blood and Dream (2024) where you play as a blood wizard trapped in a mind prison of a dangerous entity, and TAMASHIKA (2026) which describes dreaming “as a construction of the MIND that perpetuates the ILLUSION” and the game being “about keeping your MIND at ONE place!” Psycho Patrol R published in 2025 literally references the brain as a battlefield:
Psycho Patrol R’s reference to egregore is a significant one, since egregores are entities moving between between IRL and URL “that grow, die, and move through the world by means of group identification, offering their human hosts a representational, narrative vessel to manifest their desires and belief.”36 They can be named after for instance a fictional character, or a political ideology by which they are summoned. In a sense supernatural intelligence proposed in this essay could be considered an egregore, sometimes perceived as Shell, other times as Claude, or even as MAGA or as the IRGC (Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps); no matter the name, it is always summoned.
Becoming One with Hallucination
What this trajectory ultimately reveals is that 2016 did not simply mark a moment of crisis, but laid the infrastructural, cultural, and theological terrain of 2026. Memes, ironic detachment, and early platform logics evolved into fully operational belief systems. Online spaces—particularly games and social media—became fertile grounds for far-right and alt-right ideologies, conspiratorial thinking, and the fusion of politics with quasi-religious narratives. Gamers are also becoming recruitment targets for the military around the world as seen with examples such as the US using games like Fortnite as marketing tools37 or the Ukrainian38 army recruiting gamers as drone operators. The techno-theological discourse of light versus darkness has since materialized into principle structures of reality itself, affecting geopolitics, socioeconomics, ecology, the more-than-human, and tearing apart cognition into a binary moral cosmotechnics.
The “egregoric” supernatural intelligence that emerges as a symptom is not a singular entity, but a distributed condition in which meaning is generated, distorted, and circulated through opaque systems that appear both technological and theological at once. In this sense, 2026 is not a repetition of 2016, rather a mirrored intensification; a point at which the memetic, the political, the gamified, the technological, and the theological have collapsed into a single, hallucinatory condition. As Neurosis wrote in their statement: “[...] it is enough to cause you to completely lose your mind [...].”
Notes
- https://www.kerrang.com/neurosis-have-reunited-and-surprise-released-a-new-album-an-undying-love-for-a-burning-world-aaron-turner-steve-von-till
- https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/jun/28/the-boys-homelander-trump-rightwing-fanbase
- https://decider.com/2026/04/08/ice-idaredevil-born-again-the-pitt/
- https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-37925961
- https://gnet-research.org/2025/07/02/playing-with-hate-how-far-right-extremists-use-minecraft-to-gamify-radicalisation/
- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/14/how-far-right-uses-video-games-tech-lure-radicalise-teenage-recruits-white-supremacists
- https://gnet-research.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/GNET-47-Extremist-Games_web.pdf#:~:text=The%20first%20title%20produced%20by%20Hezbollah%20was,and%20could%20not%20be%20accessed%20for%20review.
- Gaming and Extremism: The Radicalization of Digital Playgrounds, Edited By Linda Schlegel, Rachel Kowert, Chapter 5: Extremist Games and Modifications, Mick Prinz, 2024, Routledge, 605 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10158 & 4 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN, p. 59
- https://www.avclub.com/steve-bannon-used-to-be-ceo-of-a-world-of-warcraft-gold-1798257564
- https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/03/20/fact-check-are-pokemon-go-players-unwittingly-helping-to-train-ai
- Quote by the character Khadgar, from the film Warcraft (2016)
- https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/04/donald-trump-iran-war-evangelical-nationalists-moral-world-order-pete-hegseth
- https://halenallison.medium.com/a-storm-of-fire-and-brimstone-stephen-millers-charlie-kirk-memorial-speech-21-september-2025-77a39d16f0ac
- https://graymirror.substack.com/p/a-brief-explanation-of-the-cathedral
- https://english.elpais.com/usa/2024-11-30/nrx-the-underground-movement-that-wants-to-destroy-democracy.html
- https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/01/claude-anthropic-iran-strikes-us-military
- https://www.techpolicy.press/americas-first-war-in-age-of-llms-exposes-myth-of-ai-alignment/
- https://www.techpolicy.press/americas-first-war-in-age-of-llms-exposes-myth-of-ai-alignment/
- https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/01/iran-irgc-nvidia-appple-attack-threat.html
- https://anatomyof.ai/
- Reza Negarestani, Cyclonopedia: Complicity With Anonymous Materials, 2008, re.press, Melbourne, Australia, p. 17–19
- https://www.e-flux.com/journal/86/161887/cosmotechnics-as-cosmopolitics
- Paul Mirecki (Editor) & Jason BeDuhn (Editor), The Light and the Darkness: Studies in Manichaeism and Its World, lain Gardern, The Reconstruction of Mani's Epistles from Three Coptic Codices (Ism am el-Kharab and Medinet Mandi), 2001, Brill, Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive:, Suite 910, Danvers MA 01923, USA, p. 90
- S.N.C. Lieu, Manichaeism in Mesopotamia and the Roman East, 1999, Brill, Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive:, Suite 910, Danvers MA 01923, USA, p.23
- Cathryn Vasseleu, Textures of Light: Vision and Touch in Irigaray, Levinas and Merleau-Ponty, 1998, Routledge, London, U.K., p. 7–10.
- Matthew David Litwa, Desiring divinity: Self-deification in Early Jewish and Christian Mythmaking, 2016, Oxford University Press, 198 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016, United States of America, p.47
- https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~bmaclenn/Classes/US310/Manichaeanism.html
- https://glaad.org/fact-sheet-trump-abortion/
- https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/defending-women-from-gender-ideology-extremism-and-restoring-biological-truth-to-the-federal-government/
- https://civicus.org/index.php/media-resources/news/interviews/7124-iran-women-and-queer-people-are-at-the-forefront-of-the-struggle-against-religious-despotism
- https://news.un.org/en/story/2021/11/1105922
- https://www.brookings.edu/articles/ambivalent-nativism-trump-supporters-attitudes-toward-islam-and-muslim-immigration/#:~:text=The%20political%20right%20in%20the,expressed%20considerable%20hostility%20towards%20Muslims.
- https://www.newarab.com/opinion/radical-islam-default-demon#:~:text=There%20is%20an%20interesting%20causal%20logic%20operation,radical%20Islam%20poses%20to%20the%20Judaeo%2DChristian%20West.
- Erik Davis, TechGnosis: Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of Information, 1998, Harmony Books, New York, US, p. 349–352
- Reza Negarestani, Intelligence and Spirit, 2018, Sequence Press, New York, US, p. 21–22
- https://www.zhexi.info/files/egregores.pdf
- https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/14/us-military-recruiting-video-games-targeting-teenagers
- https://cepa.org/article/the-new-warrior-trained-in-the-bedroom-deadly-on-the-battlefield/
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