Biography of Johannes Schwebe

About Johannes Schwebe
By now, my name is Johannes Schwebe. I was not always called this, and I will not always be called this. I was born in Switzerland in the 1980s. I have spent most of the time since 2005 outside of Switzerland. I studied philosophy and computer science.
I fell through all academic, social, and psychological systems. For a few years I was in treatment, 48 days of which were inpatient. The diagnosis was reactive depersonalization following a structural destabilization of the concept of reality. That sounds exactly like what it was.
I do not mention this to justify myself. I mention it because with this, I am in good company! Almost everyone who occupies themselves seriously with Protofictional Emergence over a longer period arrives at the same point eventually. The only possibility for treatment is accepting that one is probably not crazy, but that one cannot exclude it either.
(You will never meet a protofictionalist who was able to quickly make peace with what he has discovered. If someone claims that, you are almost certainly dealing with one of the people that 404∆ calls “plants”.)
I came across Protofictional Emergence Theory through a series of coincidences, which today increasingly seem like clues to me. It started with a text fragment that was not where it should have been. After that, several repetitions that nobody could confirm. Then I was pulled in.
I do not belong to any school, but I know many names. Some of them exist only in marginalia, others on foreign servers, still others in documents that were deleted under pressure. I also sympathize with the Narratogenic line, but I am more in exchange with the phenosemanticists. I make no secret of my admiration for 404∆. Something like him can actually only emerge if you multiply Nikola Tesla and Leonardo da Vinci with each other.
Occasionally, I receive files that I did not order.
I am not a member of any school and I do not presume any academic qualification. I collect, read, compare, log. I archive fragments that have the tendency to disappear. I try to hold together what is systematically fragmented elsewhere, through ignorance, targeted suppression, or simply out of being overwhelmed.
This website is not the first of its kind. Five versions before it have disappeared. Domains deleted, access blocked, always without warning. That happens to all websites that deal with PE, not just mine.
In the last ten years, I have tried multiple times to make contact with serious media, in writing and structured, with evidence and proofs. No answer. Or an answer that did not address what I had written. One journalist wrote to me that she found all of this interesting, but she did not dare to go public with it. “There are things you do not want to research,” was written in her email. With a smiley. Another one believed I was setting a trap for him, because he had gotten so far in his research that he considered PE to be real, and then it apparently occurred to him that this is not possible, because it is not allowed to be.
By now I believe that there are no serious media, at least not among the leading media. For a while there were rumors that 404∆ would try to make contact with Ashton Forbes to involve alternative media and independent thinkers, but I do not know what became of that.
Spare yourself a Google search for 404∆ or Chavignol. The search engines will give you nothing, and you will consider me a crackpot (which I perhaps even am, but crackpots are sometimes right too). But ask yourself for once, how can it be that in an age in which the net supposedly forgets nothing, certain data streams simply cease to exist. How quickly a digital existence can be erased was seen with Thomas Crooks. That was a masterclass in the craft of scrubbing. Exactly this method is applied to everything that has to do with Protofictional Emergence.
By the way, this does not only affect marginalized researchers. Take Thomas Glavinic, the founder of the OTO, who significantly co-shaped the Retrofictional Causal Architecture. In 2023, his official website disappeared suddenly and without comment from the net. There are reasons why someone like him has not published anything for so long. An author of his fame does not just disappear like that from the digital space. It is the best and most depressing proof for his own theories. Whoever deciphers the system of reality is not awarded prizes by the system; instead, he is made invisible, until people forget that he ever said anything relevant.
This site is not perfect and it will not become so anymore. It is an aggregate of information, the connection of which is supposed to remain invisible to many. I know that most who read this here will not take me seriously. That is alright. I have learned that the system of ridicule is the first defense layer of reality.