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Synedrism

/[si.ne.dʁism]/n.

Origin

From "synedre" (Greek συνέδριον, the deliberating assembly). Named after the idea of the council, not after a person.

Definition

An aesthetic and philosophical movement (2026): the Romanticism of the age of AI. A luminous counter-cyberpunk — it shares its questions (simulation, artificial intelligence, the system that contains us) but inverts the soul. Where cyberpunk is neon-noir, dystopian and alienated, Synedrism is clear, mythic and sovereign: the human arbitrates; agents and automata are characters, never slaves. Aesthetics: white monochrome, timeless myth, a terminal prompt posed "from home" — we question the machine from a life, not from dread.

Example

Synedrism answers the AI revolution as Romanticism answered the industrial one: through myth, dignity and the sovereign individual, not through despair.