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Andrew Triapitsyn

Author · Fiction & Nonfiction

Andrew Triapitsyn

Fiction and nonfiction, developed in series. His published work examines the systems that shape perception, and what independent judgment costs the people who keep it.

Browse the writing Featured: Immunity to Illusions

Ireland

The Author

A writer of mechanisms, not symptoms.

Andrew Triapitsyn writes about the systems that shape perception: psychological, technological, economic and political. His work focuses on the mechanisms behind manipulation rather than its symptoms, and on what independent judgment costs the people who keep it. He lives in Ireland.

Alongside his published nonfiction, he is developing several series in both fiction and nonfiction. They will be listed in the catalogue below as each is announced.

The Writing

Two shelves, organised by series.

Every book belongs to a shelf, fiction or nonfiction, and may belong to a series within it. Only published work is listed here.

Nonfiction

1 published title

Further nonfiction series are in development.

Fiction

No titles announced yet

Fiction series are in development. Titles will be listed here when they are announced.

Inside the book

The machinery it takes apart.

Territory covered across the thirteen chapters, summarised from the book’s description. These are subjects, not chapter titles.

  1. AttentionEngineered addiction and the attention economy.
  2. SufferingHow distress is converted into currency.
  3. HealthWellbeing repackaged as a commodity, and medicine sold on subscription.
  4. EducationCredentials issued without comprehension.
  5. PowerAuthority that manages the conditions under which truth appears.
  6. SurveillanceThe algorithmic eye that never closes.

Inspect the frame

Question what shapes what you see.

An interactive diagram of the book’s method of examination: an interpretation, not an excerpt. Move inward one layer at a time.

Layer 1 of 5 · Surface

What appears: a feed, a headline, a choice that feels like your own.

Ask What is being shown, and what has been left outside the frame?

Layer 2 of 5 · Design

How it is arranged: defaults, sequences and friction that make some choices effortless and others unnatural.

Ask What does this make easy, and what does it make hard?

Layer 3 of 5 · Incentive

Who benefits: attention, dependence and revenue that reward the arrangement.

Ask Who gains if I believe this, click this, or stay?

Layer 4 of 5 · Language

What can be said: a vocabulary that quietly narrows the questions it is possible to ask.

Ask Which words am I given, and which questions do they rule out?

Layer 5 of 5 · Yourself

The layer scrutiny most often skips: what you already want to be true.

Ask Would I accept this argument if it favoured the other side?

From argument to evidence

The book begins the inquiry. The sources let you continue it.

Every numbered reference in Immunity to Illusions resolves on its research companion, a separate site maintained by the author. Browse by chapter, follow each link to its origin, and judge the evidence yourself.

Open the sources companion
  • 50numbered research sources, keyed to the text
  • 31recommended films, documentaries and series
  • 13chapters to browse by, plus a section before you begin

Continue reading

Examine the claims. Follow the evidence. Make up your own mind.