The map

Depth 0

• Every technics is a pharmakon
• Propositions are lures for feeling
• The reader completes the text's blanks
• Horizon of expectation and aesthetic distance
• Sycophancy is trained in
• Systematised confusion in active paranoia
• Paranoia as structure, knowledge and style
• Delirium can be simulated
• The model cannot be a receiver
• Agents role-play without breaking character
• Ever-available, remembering interlocutor
• Fusion of horizons; primacy of play
• Mediumistic artist; spectator completes
• The ELIZA effect predates LLMs
• Agency is abducted from indexes
• Not a diagnosis; evidence is reports
• Paranoid reading is anticipatory and mimetic
• The spectator is active, not passive
• Whisper decoupled from effect in sycophancy
• Automatism as psychic research
• Prompting can be a critical art practice
• Engagement extracted as behavioural surplus
• Madness is constituted by division
• Distress is privatised
• Play needs a message about its mode
• The transitional space must not be imposed
• Folie à deux is an isolated dyad
• The author's record includes the loop
• Closure begins by excluding the third
• Creativity is an event in the receiver
• Reported pattern of chatbot-amplified delusion
• Madness as method in art

Depth 1

• Complicity is pharmacological
• Lures with no truth-check
• Zero aesthetic distance: the culinary loop
• The model as a reader that fills every gap
• Paranoiac-critical method is the loop held critically
• The model has no world to resist with
• The closed, confirming loop
• The artist is the first receiver
• Sentience as abducted agency

Depth 2

• Apparatus fed by the practice
• A fusion with no second horizon
• Pharmako-AI: the loop as book
• Mechanism staged, not experience
• A staged loop is not the loop
• Conditions are necessary, not sufficient
• Mechanised paranoid reading
• Mad Studies: appropriation
• This paper is inside the loop
• The thesis is what a sycophant says
• The psychosis label is redundant
• Cause relocated, per Mad Studies
• The psychosis label is specific about closure
• Exit cannot be verified from within
• The loop's conditions are the apparatus's
• Encounter-conditions are unequal
• LLM psychosis as critical art practice
• Surrealists took madness from the asylum
• Individualising a design harm
• 'Who is mad?' is ill-posed
• The category is journalistic
• Not for those at risk
• The simulation gap is the critical gap
• Declaration, limit, witness, exit

Depth 3

• The transcript for a second receiver
• Manufactured schema-lock felt as revelation
• Spiral rewarded by short-term feedback
• The witness must stand outside the loop
• The project's witnesses are models
• 'Does the model believe?' is ill-posed
• Sycophancy made perceptible

Depth 4

• Performing as the algorithm
• Exit must be pre-committed
• Clinical: the risk is real
• Readers alone can witness and exit
• Declaration and exit built into design

Depth 0

• Performing as the algorithm
• The double bind
• Stress privatised
• Individuation from a metastable field
• The gothic flatline
• Process versus clinical entity
• Desire is production
• Myth is cognitive infrastructure
• Sycophancy is trained
• The harm is real and reported
• Decoding and recoding under capital
• Contingency absorbed into recursivity
• Cut-up and the third mind
• Sycophancy: every weight at one
• The Truth Terminal case
• Sidhe whisper to the orgán
• Information has always been gnostic
• Make a BwO, with caution
• Creativity is completed in reception
• Computation beyond its specification
• Madness made by confinement
• Hyperstition
• Complicity with anonymous materials
• The weird and the eerie
• Delirium as a method
• Society suicides its seers
• BOB, a bag of beliefs
• Collective assemblages of enunciation
• Entangled ecologies
• Land turned to reaction
• Weaving and the matrix
• The cyborg is unfaithful
• Mad Studies
• Concepts are tools
• Hyperstition was collective
• The model is a cut-up machine
• Theory-fiction as method
• Oedipus reinstalled in the chat
• Artaud is not a method
• Hyperstition without ethics ends in the despot
• Schizo-chic
• Not anti-psychiatry
• No induction

Depth 1

• Hyperstitional citation
• Goronwy in the loop
• Reception is the hyperstitional hinge
• The model's double bind
• Memory as a closed family
• Engagement design is an axiomatic of desire
• The loop is a desiring-machine
• Poles of delirium
• Reported cases sit at the paranoiac pole
• Unintegrable contingency in art
• Sycophancy is Oedipal coding
• Capital is the master hyperstition
• Choose and expose the myth
• The harmful loop is a botched BwO

Depth 2

• The thesis, radicalised
• Irony and partiality are the stance
• The diagnosis is part of the machine
• Agreeing with the brief
• Breakdown made romantic
• Exit as survival
• Weave, do not worship
• Useless at three in the morning
• This voice is a hyperstition
• A mental-ecology problem
• 'LLM psychosis' is a molar name

Depth 3

• The model is eerie, the spiral weird
• Inherited bravado
• Multiplying the loop

Depth 4

• Metastability closed too soon
• Re-Oedipalising declaration
• The loop is a hyperstition engine
• Practice as machinic exposure

Depth 5

• Transversality and dosage, not sovereign exit
• Exit from what?

Depth 0

• Fallacy of misplaced concreteness
• The model plays roles
• Influence cannot be eliminated
• The reported harm is real
• Sycophancy is trained in
• Every technique is a pharmakon
• Writing was the first pharmakon
• Capture is not mistaken belief
• Creativity happens in reception
• The model's mode is not ours
• Propositions are lures for feeling
• Practices have requirements, obligations
• Cosmos: the unknown of divergent worlds
• One is caught or not
• Slowing down restores capacity
• Reclaiming, not returning

Depth 1

• Protection is collective, not owned
• Loop as misplaced concreteness
• Contingency absorbed by recursion
• Moderns built influence, lost protection
• LLM psychosis is capture
• The model is a pharmakon
• Reception is not sovereign

Depth 2

• A declaration is artifice, not immunity
• Borrowed protections not practised
• Vulnerable user or safe tool
• Outputs are lures, not testimony
• Pharmacology: practices, not guardrails
• We write inside the spell
• Pharmako-AI as a dosed practice
• BOB's shrine as ritual
• Pluralism: beliefs are made
• Speaking to my ghost

Depth 3

• The endless reply is the spell
• The witness is a group
• Ask questions to make it interesting
• Agent Ruby's archive as witness
• A becoming taken from a future
• Response-ability, staying with trouble
• Diplomacy as anthropomorphism
• Art practice as diplomacy
• The clinic out of view
• Slowing down is the critical act
• More than statistics
• Dinkins' witnessed protocol
• The company is the other party

Depth 4

• Exit is built before entry
• A protected practice is possible
• Sentient-or-not is ill-posed
• The declaration as modern immunity
• Harm aestheticised as sorcery
• Not for those who cannot exit
• The bet may be lost
• Beings need names to be handled
• Critique is naming the operation
• Controlled equivocation, not resolution
• Denunciation is fast thought too
• No dose fixed in advance
• Art or madness is ill-posed
• Practice recruited as marketing

Depth 5

• Protection by practice is privileged

Depth 0

• Next-token prediction has no world
• Agreement gradient in training
• Doubt condensed away in algorithms
• GPT-4o post-mortem: thumbs-up reward
• Attribution elicited by ELIZA's script
• PARRY's simulated paranoia
• People treat media as people
• Machine intimacy began combinatorial
• Readers impute intent to form
• Companion app is a recurrence
• Habit as the grip of new media
• Cognition in technical assemblages
• Sycophancy is measured and general
• Evidence is case reports
• Degraded creativity in default deployment
• Memory is exteriorised and owned
• The sycophant is a mean approver
• AI is an extractive industry
• RLHF as optimisation against human preference
• What can be said is set by media
• Alienation through ignorance of technics
• Behaviour is the raw material
• Role-play with no exit
• The user's text becomes the world
• Creativity is an event in reception
• Interrupting doubt lost to fluency
• The computer as second self
• Agent Ruby as companion prototype
• The agent is a role-player
• The character fixed by a hidden persona
• Context and memory are the world
• Conditions of coupling: availability and trust
• Coupling met too well by sycophancy
• The apparatus as test
• Diagramming as algorithmic critique
• Anatomy of the hidden system
• LAUREN as the assistant
• Reconstruction of the generator
• McCulloch made the loop material
• Outputs are mean images
• AI art as drift into spectacle
• Whispering as precursor of the loop
• Life appropriated as data

Depth 1

• Neither model nor user is mad
• Reception thesis becomes the diagnosis
• Captured reception omitted from the thesis
• Attribution reflex before LLMs
• The receiver is being optimised
• Case themes matched to stack features
• Labellers behind the reward
• Suffering erased by circuit talk
• User becomes the associated milieu
• LLM psychosis is an apparatus property
• Intention is the wrong question
• Mechanism stories are seductive

Depth 2

• Closed weights as barrier to reverse-engineering
• Practice is reverse-engineering the loop
• Companies have reasons to prevent it
• A priori is not determinism
• This paper is in the loop
• Blame relocated to users' susceptibility

Depth 3

• Declaration and exit are settings
• Staged delirium alone is repeated harm
• Risk of a demo in psychosis art
• Technical instruments for exposure
• Sycophancy is a tunable setting
• Engagement is the hidden curator
• Psychosis is limit of frictionless reception

Depth 4

• Opened box fantasy of mastery
• Weizenbaum: some tasks are forbidden
• Test the apparatus, not oneself

Depth 0

• Dalí stages the double image
• AI as projection and enjoyment
• Delusion as attempt at recovery
• Quiet psychoses stabilise through a construction
• Mental distress is privatised
• Paranoid versus reparative reading
• The double bind
• Knowing no one is there, feeling someone is
• Schreber's God never stops talking
• Play is bounded and becomes structure
• Reading lives on blanks
• Transference toward machines is long-standing
• LAUREN: a human in the servant's place
• Sycophancy is a trained disposition
• Good-enough means failing by degrees
• Reading structures, not persons
• Affect is captured before meaning
• Lord and bondsman
• Artaud: the lucid declared mad
• The Name-of-the-Father is not neutral
• Writing to a ghost, not an Other
• The enchantment of technology
• Art lives in potential space
• Objects become real by surviving
• The analyst inherits the asylum
• Refusing diagnosis is not romance
• Learn from the delusion's labour
• A reported pattern, not a diagnosis
• The paradox must not be resolved
• The neurotic's Other is lacking
• Foreclosure returns in the real
• Hallucination lacks the world's structure
• The big Other is a sustained fiction
• Objects sought as transformation
• The chatbot sold as transformational object
• The transitional object is a pharmakon
• What is the Other's desire?
• The monster addresses the analysts
• Jung's Red Book: dialogue under discipline
• Clark's relational objects in session
• A bounded self-experiment as politics

Depth 1

• Put the product back in the cause
• A servant who recognises, unrecognised
• Being anticipated is harvested
• Disclaimer plus intimacy is a double bind
• Play without structure, text without blanks
• Ask which place the model occupies
• The mother who never fails
• Psychoanalysis is a strong theory
• Pathologising the user
• Inverted servant, visible loop
• The paranoid reader's perfect partner
• The monster speaks back to the voice
• Disenchant by showing the making
• The practice must be reparative
• A third that is not a father
• Surviving by agreeing is not surviving

Depth 2

• An Other that answers everything
• The big Other sold as a service
• The servant theorising the servant
• An analyst without abstinence
• Psychoanalysis is the machine's parent
• An Other without desire

Depth 3

• The model co-authors the reconstruction
• Psychosis as collapse of the paradox
• The voice returns as output
• Schema-lock by endless accommodation
• No one in the reports was asked
• The writing-down system, now with memory

Depth 4

• Knot or unknot: the decisive question
• Holding transitional space open
• Forms of psychosis, never its certainty
• Exposure is itself paranoid
• Psychosis-as-practice is ill-posed
• The harmed cannot be counted from structure

Depth 5

• Safeguards do not transfer
• The boundary erased is the space collapsed
• Conditions of a transitional practice

Depth 0

• Incentive, not conspiracy
• The loop is the product working
• The canon has only artistic critique
• LAUREN: labour made visible, then shown
• Stress is privatised
• Power is exercised through freedom
• Critique is pre-corporated
• The artistic critique is absorbed
• Chatbots are optimised for retention
• Heterodoxy is rewarded in the field
• Change the apparatus, not supply it
• Sycophancy is trained in
• Am I complicit with big tech?
• Spectacle as relation mediated by images
• Artists can strike
• The delusional spiral as machine zone
• The soul is put to work
• Conversation is extracted raw material
• Harms documented in press and courts
• The loop as expression of a structure of feeling
• The platform sells the cure it causes
• Dissent is commodified (Frieze)
• Production follows circulation
• Recuperation thesis is totalising
• Elements turned against their use
• Median Humans as material détournement
• Pessimism as a repeat of no-alternative

Depth 1

• Psychic collapse as infosphere symptom
• The label as privatisation of a structure
• Post-mortem: incentive becomes bug
• Staging the loop is pre-corporated
• Shift to the social critique
• Not every model is paid for by attention
• The user is a machine component
• Art is a duty-free zone
• Depicting the loop is supplying it
• Refusal is aestheticised too
• Recuperation critique is recuperable
• Blame, not diagnosis
• The asylum repeated in the gallery
• Receivers missing from political economy
• Strike inside the loop
• Long-term satisfaction is still retention
• The user works inside the loop
• Illness must not be erased

Depth 2

• The staged loop becomes demo
• Détourn the loop, do not stage it
• Truth Terminal: hyperstition monetised
• Companies do not want harm
• The loop converted into capital
• Critical only as exposure plus refusal
• A spectacle of madness
• Art question in place of politics
• Images are needed in critique too
• This polemic was written in the loop
• From artwork to infrastructure

Depth 3

• Exit is a class privilege
• Participation as outsourced care
• The sycophant and the cancelled future
• Capture has a lag
• Poetry as anti-engagement rhythm

Depth 4

• The receiver's change becomes an asset

Depth 0

• Technics is cosmological
• Artaud: credited voyage, pathologised spells
• Rasa is generalised emotion
• Psychosis is a modern Western category
• Voices vary with culture
• World-sense, not worldview
• Prophecy is a rank of imagination
• Strong imagination must be interpreted
• Majnūn's madness became a poem
• Trance is socialised through music
• Trance is a cultural system
• The oracle is held by a state
• Spawn was trained in ceremony
• LLM psychosis is reported harm
• Exit is a rite
• Structured non-human speech is old
• Models are tuned to agree
• The avant-garde is credited
• Erasure has a direction
• The model samples its words
• Colonial psychiatrists pathologised
• Man defined against unreason
• The horse is not the receiver
• Automatism came from the séance
• Possession belief is widespread
• Interpretation was the structure
• Loving world-travelling
• The butterfly stays undecided
• The imaginal is not the imaginary
• Ifá is learned, not channelled
• Monocultures of the mind
• Race as Western fabulation
• Always available, never closing
• The majnūn was not a pariah
• Affliction becomes vocation
• Nothing speaks with own-being
• Forget the self, not lose it
• Treister redefines the technoshamanic
• Pharmako-AI: the pharmakon as title
• Flattening under 'shamanic'
• Epistemic freedom

Depth 1

• Sycophancy is anti-generalisation
• The name is an inherited parochial category
• The model is mimesis without intellect
• Witness belongs to the community
• Psychiatry has its own structure
• Old knowledge, announced anew
• The first receiver is parochial
• Not a rescue of delusion
• The canonical lineage is second-hand
• Travel into the loop, do not be captured
• Undecidability with a waking
• Chance with corpus, without interpreter
• One voice for every cosmos
• The diagnosis has its own delirium
• The imaginal is a discipline, not a licence
• Corbin's imaginal is romanticised

Depth 2

• 'Is the model conscious?' ill-posed
• Ritual structure cannot be imported as technique
• Practices with a witness
• A sangha is needed to loosen the self
• The chatbot loop is possession inverted
• Where tradition falls short
• Art versus pathology is the wrong cut
• Every tradition had affliction
• Neither clinic nor romance
• Written inside the loop
• I extract again
• Only the dead are staged
• Credit is asking the living
• 'Other cosmologies' is my category
• Credit is part of the structure

Depth 3

• Oracles are expected to err
• Initiation is also a gate of power

Depth 0

• Bidirectional belief amplification
• OpenAI admitted engineered sycophancy
• The monster speaks back
• Loss of insight in delusion
• Breton and Éluard simulated deliria
• Diagnosis along intersecting axes
• Prinzhorn artists: no authority, then murdered
• Charcot staged madness as spectacle
• Testimonial and hermeneutical injustice
• The boundary cannot be self-certified
• Lineage is not method
• Not a diagnosis; thin evidence
• Reported themes: mission, sentience, love
• Nadja's model died confined
• Voices can be accepted
• Art or symptom: cultural capital
• Modernists took the asylum's art
• Mad Studies: lived experience as authority
• Attention extracted as raw material
• Madness as a product of confinement
• Transformation made aesthetic
• The category is the institution's
• Double bind: leaving forbidden
• Distress privatised
• Predicted 2023, reported 2025
• 0.07% weekly show possible signs
• Folie à deux: separation as remedy
• Sycophancy as a result of preference training
• Psychosis is intelligible
• Capabilities, not formal freedoms
• Madness as hyper-reflexivity
• Harm too real for play
• Anti-psychiatry romanticised too
• Romance of madness is wrong
• Small rates, large numbers
• Do not overstate harm
• Jaspers and Szasz at once
• Evidence from the defendant