"When was the last time you clicked from one independent website to another, following a chain of human curiosity rather than an algorithmic suggestion? When was the last time you felt lost online in a good way?"
by Lloyd Lewis for Art of FACELESS
The internet isn’t dying in a dramatic blaze. There’s no explosion, no single moment you can point to and say that’s when it ended. It’s disappearing quietly, behind login screens and subscription walls, inside apps that call themselves communities while training you like a laboratory rat.
We moved our Substack work to Ghost to save it. Now we’re moving the conversation to Discord to save us. By Art of Faceless The migration is complete. If you are reading this, you have successfully landed with us on the Sovereign Web. The archives are safe, the subscription list is secure, and, most importantly, there are no algorithms here recommending hate speech in the sidebar. But Ghost is a place for publishing. It is where we put the work on the wall. What we missed, immediately, are yo
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Art of FACELESS Art of FACELESS We’ve spent the past week taking a long, unsentimental look at what it means to exist on the modern internet — not the nostalgic version full of community and conversation, but the real architecture: an attention economy, a surveillance layer, and a network that scatters identity until nothing meaningful remains. AOF has always been built on one principle: Facelessness is Freedom. Not vanishing. Not hiding. But choosing how and where we appear — and refusing
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We are announcing the initiation of a massive archival project that has been fourteen years in the making. Today marks the soft launch of Chronicles of The Hollow Circuit™ - the definitive repository for Art of FACELESS spanning over a decade of investigation into identity, anonymity, and the encroaching digital gaze. Chronicles of The Hollow Circuit™ – Est. 2012 Art of FACELESSChronicles of The Hollow Circuit™ What Is This Archive? This is not just a gallery. It is a map of our trajectory.
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Art of FACELESS February 2026 You know that feeling when you're watching a really good film, and halfway through you realise it's not just entertainment, it's actually teaching you something about how the world works? And then you can't separate the story from the insight anymore? That's basically what we've been building for 14 years, except it goes both ways, runs infinitely deep, and we've finally figured out the maths behind why it works. The Simple Version We run two websites: artoffa
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