Perceptum lends its ethos from our understanding of Manuel DeLanda's sense of how things are versus how they could (or should) be.

In an interview DeLanda is quoted as saying "I agree that the domination of this century by linguistics and semiotics (which is what allows us to reduce everything to talk of “frameworks of interpretation”), not to mention the postcolonial guilt of so many white intellectuals which forces them to give equal weight to any other culture’s belief system, has had a very damaging effect, even on art. Today I see art students trained by guilt-driven semioticians or postmodern theorists, afraid of the materiality of their medium — whether painting, music, poetry, or virtual reality (since, given the framework dogma, every culture creates its own reality). The key to break away from this is to cut language down to size, to give it the importance it deserves as a communications medium, but to stop worshipping it as the ultimate reality. Equally important is to adopt a hacker attitude toward all forms of knowledge: not only to learn UNIX or Windows NT to hack this or that computer system, but to learn economics, sociology, physics, biology to hack reality itself. It is precisely the can-do mentality of the hacker, naive as it may sometimes be, that we need to nurture everywhere."