pkhan’s master thesis

                                       


   introduction


     chapter 1: hyperconnected loneliness

       chapter 2: enter the haustorium

         chapter 3: ritual firewalls

           chapter 4: opaque by design


    

             bibliography





    appendix: praxis documentation

hidden drafts


Abstract: 

(2) The installation component juxtaposes two visual modalities—the narrowly focused "predator vision" represented on a vertical screen and the spatially aware "prey vision" displayed across an ultra-wide horizontal format — creating a phenomenological encounter that makes visible the otherwise imperceptible structures governing contemporary attention. This visual metaphor serves as both diagnostic tool and generative proposition, revealing how digital spaces have reconfigured our sensory apparatus while gesturing toward alternative configurations.

(4) The thesis proposes that the resilience generated through embodied collective experience emerges precisely from its capacity to reintegrate fragmented subjectivities. Against the haustorial logic of extraction that characterizes platform capitalism, these experiences offer rhizomatic possibilities — horizontal connections that resist hierarchical organization and algorithmic determination. What emerges is not a simplistic binary between digital and physical realms but a complex interplay of intentionality, where collective embodied presence creates temporal autonomy outside algorithmic time and develops shared meaning beyond individualized content feeds.