The MindShift Series
The Quiet Shift
What happens to us when we spend hours every day in feeds that are not optimized for truth or education – but for engagement and time spent? "The Quiet Shift" tells the story of a quiet revolution: How algorithms shape our attention, why children are growing up differently than ever before, and what we can do to stay capable of action in this new world.
Why this book is "highly curative"
In a world of data floods, this work is a concentrated distillate. On 125 pages, this book delivers structured, highly concentrated, precise, and well-founded work. It is a dense cadence of insights that can inspire action. Created in co-creation with leading AI systems, it is not a theoretical view from outside, but a reportage directly from the technological front line.
Clarity or algorithmic powerlessness?
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Here is the book summarized in 7 chapters and 21 episodes – the essence of a 7-year journey.
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You Are the Universe
How Consciousness Creates the World – and How You Recognize Yourself in It
The starting point: What is consciousness? Where does our experience come from? And how is our personal perception connected to the world? At the center is the thesis that it is not the world that produces our consciousness, but our consciousness that makes the world experienceable.
Lost in Space – Trying to Find a Place
A Poetic-Philosophical Work on Identity, Resonance, and the Cosmos
The emotional heart of the series. It combines insights from modern physics with emotional movements: quantum fluctuations, time dilation, and the laws of resonance become sensually experienceable.
What Does AI Do to Us?
How Artificial Intelligence Changes Our Thinking, Acting, and Being Human
An interdisciplinary work examining how AI changes our society, self-image, and human behavior. It explores the silent shifts that algorithms implant in our thinking, feeling, and acting.
Professional Identity in the AI Age
How Artificial Intelligence Changes the World of Work and Our Self-Understanding
The most practical work of the series. Central question: Who am I – when AI works alongside me? It shows how profession and identity are increasingly decoupling and which human competencies remain irreplaceable.
Hakan Özgür
Born in 1976, lives between Dresden and Izmir. A connection of visual art, language, and social reflection.
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The Quiet Shift – 21 Episodes
A journey through the invisible transformation of our perception. From diagnosis to sovereignty – in 21 stages.
Arrival in the New Normal
The greatest change of our time happens not through a loud bang, but through the absence of one.
Perception as Infrastructure
Our brain is not a passive receiver – it's a prediction machine that can be occupied.
Analog Place vs. Digital Stream
Experience used to be tied to place. Today we're in the stream – boundless and overwhelming.
The Production of Relevance
Why do we consider certain topics important? Relevance is not coincidence – it's a product.
Comfort as Camouflage
User-friendliness is the most powerful weapon of manipulation – friction is freedom.
The Metrification of Emotion
What happens when love, grief, and anger are translated into likes, shares, and views?
The Genesis
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The MindShift series is a five-part book collection by Hakan Özgür, addressing the most pressing questions of our time – not from a technical, but from a human perspective. It connects consciousness research, identity questions, social change, and technological development into a comprehensive space for thought.
The books were not born from strategy, but from necessity – from an artistic, inner process. The starting point was images, notes, fragments of thought. Over time, this evolved into a philosophical-literary project that deliberately works not in a disciplinary way, but in a connecting manner: between art, language, science, and society.
MindShift is not just a title – it is an attitude. An invitation to perceive the world not as a problem, but as a relationship.