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THELIFTEDVEIL's four-volume diagnostic canon on the conditions of modernity. All four volumes in print, completed by The Imitation Principle.
The Four-Volume System
A diagnostic canon on the conditions of modernity — how perception is shaped, performed, accelerated, and imitated.
All four volumes are in print. Read in sequence, they move from diagnosis to performance to acceleration to imitation. The system is complete.
Volume I
THE DIAGNOSTICS
The opening of the diagnostic system
The foundational volume. It establishes the method of the whole canon: naming the conditions of modern life with clinical precision before anything can be argued, resisted, or rebuilt.
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The Social Theatre
An Anatomy of Modern Roles, Masks and Civilizational Performance
An anatomy of the roles we are cast into and the masks we mistake for selves — how civilizational performance replaces lived reality, and what is lost in the staging.
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PSYCHOANTHROFUTURISM, AI, and CORTICAL ACCELERATIONISM
The human mind under technological acceleration
What becomes of the human interior as artificial intelligence and cortical acceleration rewrite the pace of thought itself. The system turns from the social to the futural.
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The Imitation Principle
The concluding volume of the four-volume system
The work that closes the canon. On the transfer of judgment to the machine, and what a person must keep.
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Bailey Booth
Bailey Booth is a writer and philosopher. He is the author of The Social Theatre, The Diagnostics, Psychoanthrofuturism: AI and Cortical Accelerationism, and The Imitation Principle. He is the founder of THELIFTEDVEIL and DAELIX AI.
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