- Feb 2, 2022
The collapsible list below contains descriptions of our decoding toolbox's concepts and terms.
The Screen
The flat surface that projects public information to the masses.
M3 Power Supply
The three communications mediums that define imperial control of a trade lane: messages (medium of language), money (medium of exchange) and movement (medium of transportation.)
Propaganda
Public information designed to foster faith in the ruling structures of the state.
Propaganda Campaigns
A propaganda operation directed at a change in a law or management of the state's legal superstructure. Usually presented as a dramatic story
Propaganda Portal
The gateway through the Screen. It must meet five key criteria:
1. Concept is Live Propaganda: Binary story on today’s Screen directed at change in a law or management of Superstructure
2. Concept Meaning without Grammar: Story does not require complete sentence for meaning.
3. Deconstruction of Concept: Story can be deconstructed into smaller components for testing with the GT Engine
4. Concept/Object Frame: Concept paired with an Object in reality -- and more precise than it.
5. Change in Object (over time): Concept describes causality of change in Object. The current change is the campaign Goal. Past and future changes are justification for campaign.
Propaganda Frame
Based on Burke's Dramatistic Pentad, this tool deconstructs propaganda campaigns into five components: Premise, Actors, Spectacles, Setting and Goal/Means.
Navigational Quadrant
Our primary navigation tool illuminates how a propaganda campaign connects to structures of the state, which creates the basis for three-dimensional mapping of Abstract Space. It embodies the Concept/Object dialectic: up top is propaganda portal (or concept) anchored in a corresponding trade infrastructure node (or object.) On the shaft in between are three dots, which connect with the three fundamental levels of a propaganda campaign: governing interface, legal superstructure and trade lane interface.
Propaganda Matrix and Depth-of-Field
Our transitional tool to three-dimensional Abstract Space, they combines the components of the Frame and Quadrant. The Matrix creates a grid of spatial coordinates on the Screen. The Depth-of-Field pushes through the Screen to identify coordinates across time.
The Tessera
Our primary mapping tool expands the Matrix and Depth-of-Field into a cube that illuminates a propaganda campaign's spatial and temporal connections within three-dimensions Abstract Space. We examine these connections for inflection points for deeper inquiry.