Apocryphal Library

Society is a cult

Society is a Cult is a transdisciplinary research project that explores how belief, obedience, and narrative control operate in the digital age—offering a radical media literacy toolkit to resist both mainstream propaganda and the seductive logic of conspiracies.

Here and there

Here and There is a collection of zen parables, absurd koans, and other poetic provocations orbiting around the ambivalent figure of Warui Roshi, an irreverent Zen master whose dubious wisdom slips between slapstick and the sublime. These open-ended, koan-like parables resist closure or moral finality, encouraging subjective interpretation. Here and There operates as a soft mirror to Panoptikart’s stance - equally disruptive to cultural narratives by means of poetic absurdity, playful ambiguity and paradoxical mimicry.

Out there

A culturally rooted research project that uses the fictitious Codex of St. Elijah to explore disinformation, media control, and narrative power in post-truth societies—mirroring Georgia’s current communication challenges through the lens of digital and symbolic heritage.

Mécaniques de la ponderation

Mécaniques de la Pondération is a real manual for contemporary life — though its author, Claude Lebon, is entirely fictitious. Written in the form of twelve “mechanics,” the book offers practical exercises, aphorisms, and reflections to navigate chaos, inhabit the present, and cultivate lucidity, wonder, and resilience. Part guide, part philosophical experiment, it blurs the line between reality and imagination.

In progress...

Aware

AWARE — The Accidental Wisdom of Jean-Claude Van Damme is a conceptual literary project exploring the emergence of wisdom in unexpected places. This wisdom is not intentional, instructional, or performative. It arises in adjustment rather than explanation, in images rather than arguments, and in common sense rather than abstraction. Like a modern koan, it resists interpretation while inviting one to become briefly aware.

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