Konrad Becker: The Unrecognized Pioneer of Strategic Reality Management (1959-present)

Konrad Becker (born January 9, 1959, in Vienna) is an Austrian artist, hypermedia researcher, and theorist who, as early as the 1990s, formulated a complete theory of 'strategic reality management'. Founder of the Institute for New Culture Technologies (t0, 1993), Public Netbase (1994-2006) and the World-Information Institute, Becker conceptualized 'perception management' as a weapon before the term was popularized in the American military context. His works -- the Tactical Reality Dictionary (2002) and the Strategic Reality Dictionary (2009) -- constitute a critical lexicon of information control techniques. A figure of European cyberpunk and hacktivist culture, Becker represents the CRITICAL and emancipatory aspect of knowledge that SCL/Cambridge Analytica applied in an INSTRUMENTAL manner.

Konrad Becker (born January 9, 1959, in Vienna) is an Austrian artist, hypermedia researcher, and theorist who, as early as the 1990s, formulated a complete theory of 'strategic reality management'. Founder of the Institute for New Culture Technologies (t0, 1993), Public Netbase (1994-2006) and the World-Information Institute, Becker conceptualized 'perception management' as a weapon before the term was popularized in the American military context. His works -- the Tactical Reality Dictionary (2002) and the Strategic Reality Dictionary (2009) -- constitute a critical lexicon of information control techniques. A figure of European cyberpunk and hacktivist culture, Becker represents the CRITICAL and emancipatory aspect of knowledge that SCL/Cambridge Analytica applied in an INSTRUMENTAL manner.