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The Five-Step Sequence: How Psychological Capture Architectures Move from Installation to Weaponisation
GP-2026-017 — April 2026 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19164174 Abstract Psychological capture architectures do not arrive in target environments fully formed. Mapping what configurations persist — their installation across historical time, their structural recurrence across ideological ruptures — establishes the processual question rather than answering it. The five-step sequence codified in this paper describes how latent configurations move from installation to weapo
iliyan kuzmanov
Apr 1312 min read


The Persecutor Slot: Cross-Ideological Occupant Substitution as the Signature of Installed Psychological Capture
GP-2026-014 | April 2026 DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19161031 Author: Iliyan Kuzmanov Editor: Iliyan Kuzmanov ABSTRACT Adversarial mobilisation exploits psychological substrate, not ideological novelty. Populations carry pre-installed cognitive-affective configurations — architectures of identity, threat, grievance, and sacred necessity — that persist as an enduring substrate beneath continuous surface ideological mutation. Cross-ideological occupant substitut
iliyan kuzmanov
Apr 1015 min read


The Adaptive Persona: Identity, Performance, and Psychological Survival
GP-2026-008 March 2026 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19007387 Author: Angel Analytical Team Editor: Iliyan Kuzmanov Abstract Adaptive persona — the capacity to shift social presentation across contexts — is a defining feature of identity architecture, yet its psychological costs remain undertheorised. Drawing on Goffman's dramaturgical model, Hochschild's analysis of emotional labour, Higgins's self-discrepancy theory, and Winnicott's account of the false self, identity p
Angel Analytical Team
Mar 149 min read


Cognitive Inertia: The Mind in Defence of Its Own World
GP-2026-007 March 2026 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19007222 Author: Angel Analytical Team Editor: Iliyan Kuzmanov Abstract Cognitive inertia is not the mind's failure to engage with the world honestly. It is the mind performing, with considerable precision, the function it was built to perform: protecting the coherence of an existing cognitive architecture at minimum metabolic cost. At its centre lies the reconstruction threshold: the point at which the cost of maintain
Angel Analytical Team
Mar 1410 min read


Cognitive Capital and the Limits of Institutional Measurement
GP-2026-006 March 2026 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19007024 Author: Angel Analytical Team Editor: Iliyan Kuzmanov Abstract Cognitive capital — the fluid, non-linear mental capacity that drives genuine analytical performance — remains systematically undervalued in organisations designed to measure something else. The frameworks dominant in education, hiring, and organisational advancement were built to assess performance within existing structures, not capacity to exceed
Angel Analytical Team
Mar 148 min read
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