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Core Ideas
Antichrist
A positive archetype of change that challenges closed authority and returns agency to human beings. It is never a person FFTAC names.
Anti-Christ
A hyphenated spelling used to emphasize opposition to an absolute or closed claim of sacred authority; FFTAC gives it the same positive meaning.
Cognitive Liberty
The freedom to form, question, revise, and express thought without coercive control.
Architecture of Defiance
The institutions, communities, tools, and records that allow dissent and participation to last.
Redeemer
A figure or function that restores agency, knowledge, dignity, or the possibility of change.
Agent of Change
A person, idea, event, or collective force that moves a closed system into a new state.
Participation Terms
Participation
Using a vote, role, membership, public statement, record, or institution to influence a shared future.
Effective Voice
Expression connected to a decision, response, and path for follow-through.
Public Memory
The records through which later people discover what was believed, argued, decided, and changed.
Non-Designation
FFTAC’s refusal to identify any person, group, institution, or machine as the Antichrist.
Technology Terms
Participatory AI
AI design and governance in which affected people can influence objectives, data, evaluation, deployment, and remedy.
Algorithmic Exclusion
A system’s failure to represent or serve people whose experiences are missing or poorly captured in its data and design.
Viability Node
A point in a network where an intervention can preserve or redirect the health of the larger system.
Mythic Terms
Light-Bringer
A figure associated with illumination, knowledge, and the revelation of what authority concealed.
Promethean
Rebellion that distributes power or knowledge for the benefit of others.
Empire
A closed structure that concentrates authority and treats its continuation as more important than human agency.