Gary Guseinov

For example, where a Western analyst might see a worker dutifully attending a political meeting, Guseinov saw a participant in a complex ritual of ostranenie (defamiliarization). The citizen would recite the required clichés—“for the good of the motherland,” “according to the plan”—but with a specific, almost imperceptible shift in intonation that signified a private understanding: We both know this is a lie, but by uttering it correctly, we maintain peace and get our sausage. Guseinov famously cataloged the paraphrases and euphemisms that structured this reality, such as the endless use of the passive voice (“It was decided,” “Mistakes were made”) to erase agency, or the bureaucratic neologisms that turned living people into “units” of labor. He argued that this constant, performative betrayal of language produced a specific form of schizophrenia—not clinical, but existential, where one learned to inhabit two contradictory truths simultaneously without conscious conflict.

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Guseinov’s prominence in the tech industry began to rise with his involvement in . He argued that this constant, performative betrayal of