PROvoke: Systems Analysis Between Seduction, Manipulation, and Power (a Paired Performance Dialogue)

This is not a report. This is a public interrogation of the profession.

Two analysts enter the stage. One is a pragmatist who honestly admits that he uses triggers, half-truths, and the "illusion of choice" to push architecture through resistance. The second is his opponent, who knows the mechanics of these techniques from the inside, because she has to resist them every day — and does not always win.

In 40 minutes, they will analyze three topics that are considered to be silent in the profession.

You'll learn techniques that you're already using, but you just haven't called them by their proper names yet. Body and voice as API influences. Why does one image read as "status" and a similar one as "trying to appear status"? You are not lying — you are the curator of reality. You choose the right truth from the available ones.

There will be no finale with answers. There will be a choice, the one that you already make at every rally.