Technological interfaces (Google, social media, live broadcast) are framed as the new sovereign instruments that convert dispersed “users” into Arendtian councils of opinionated citizenship, shifting legitimacy from rulers and parties to networked organizational capacity and media visibility. The text critiques this communicative revolution as symbolically potent yet ideationally thin—able to topple figures through image/word economies and consumer-to-user subject formation, while remaining constrained by geopolitical modernity, fragile democratic models, and unresolved questions of pluralism in the postcolonial Middle East.

Stages an aestheticized infiltration of the Dutch secret service to expose how bureaucratic secrecy and security vetting manufacture subjects, regulate intimacy, and convert personal life into administrable “data” under the alibi of democratic protection. By weaponizing performance, seduction, and self-surveillance, the project critiques the mutual desire between institution and artist—where transparency becomes a managed spectacle and the human “face” of power is produced as an artwork within the apparatus it claims to reveal.