Pistomechanics

Pistomechanics is the study of how belief is engineered — how belief is built, installed, defended, and weaponised across rhetoric, neuroscience, theology, marketing, propaganda, hypnosis, and self-transformation. A sermon, a therapy session, a political rally, and an interrogation perform the same operation on the same substrate; only the machinery changes.

Essays and the podcast: https://pistomechanics.org