Dark Gestalt: How Brands Hijack Emotions, Distort Perception, and Manufacture Desire

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Anton Biletskyi-Volokh

Dark Gestalt

How Brands Hijack Emotions, Distort Perception, and Manufacture Desire

Anton Biletskyi-Volokh

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English

ABV Creative
03 October 2025

Cognition & cognitive psychology; Market research; Service industries

Series: The Dark Marketing Trilogy

Take the red pill and see behind the curtain: Dark Gestalt is your field manual for deciphering how brands and digital platforms manipulate feeling, perception, and behavior in the AI era.

Forget rational spreadsheets and academic theories-the modern marketplace is a psychological war zone, where instinct and emotion rule over reason. Behavioral science, Gestalt psychology, and advanced algorithms have fused into a new operating system of influence, where ""nudges"" become traps and dark UX patterns manufacture habits at scale.

You'll discover:

Why customers decide with emotion first-and justify with reason later How brands exploit cognitive shortcuts like scarcity, authority, and fear of missing out The architecture of addictive digital interfaces, AI-driven persuasion, and manipulative design The defensive playbook for surviving and thriving as a marketer-or as an autonomous human in a world of invisible programming Where ethical influence ends and dangerous deception begins Dark Gestalt is Volume 1 of The Dark Marketing Trilogy-a no-nonsense, brutally honest deconstruction for anyone who wants to decode, harness, or resist the engines of modern influence.

By: Anton Biletskyi-Volokh
Imprint: ABV Creative
Volume: 1
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 9mm
Weight: 195g
ISBN: 9798231786275
Series: The Dark Marketing Trilogy
Pages: 164
Publication Date: 03 October 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Anton Biletskyi is a multidisciplinary author, strategist, and creative systems thinker exploring the intersections of artificial intelligence, behavioral design, and human potential. With a background spanning business innovation, emotional psychology, and storytelling, he builds frameworks that help people stay adaptive, curious, and deeply human in the age of intelligent systems. Anton's work blends clarity and edge, practicality and provocation - from AI-powered productivity to dark marketing patterns, from children's books on emerging tech to culinary experiments for strange times. His writing is both a blueprint and a challenge: to rethink how we work, feel, and imagine what's next.