Lucia Tkáčová: od><op / non><con  ^SK

A culture known as non><con, which spread during the twenty first century across present-day Eurasian Territories, represented a distinctive way of life closely associated with resistance to the Web. Members of this culture, vernacularly referred to as intransmits, detachees, or non-con, formed closed communities characterized by their own symbols, folklore, and ritual practices.

Only a few artifacts from the material culture of the non><con movement have been preserved: a shelter and headgear. Their exact purpose has not been conclusively determined; however, it is generally assumed that they fulfilled a protective role. The shelters, handwoven from aluminium foil, appear to have served as simple deflectors, carefully designed to withstand ambient wavelengths. The woven headgear may have served as apotropaic amulets, indicators of social status, or elements of liturgical attire.

Analyses of Net sediments suggest that non><con likely emerged during the Fourth Industrial Revolution, rising from the remnants of earlier resistance movements, particularly the Anarcho-Analogites, Neoluddites, and Anthropofirst. Non><con was characterized by technophobia, data-related superstition, and active dissent against the ruling castes of Technarchs and SysLords.

The foundation of their belief system was likely based on the superstitious doctrines of the attentional autonomy (the right to choose what occupies one’s mind) and the right to disconnect. During the period known as cyberincarnation, they resisted thought harvesting and the implantation of neuroplugs, which frequently resulted in confrontations with NeuroKorps units, arrests, and forced linking. 

After the final wave of universal joining, when humanity fully embodied the Web, members of the non><con movement retreated to the Waste Zones, and from the twenty second century onwards, all trace of them vanished.