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Tag Archives: Hyperreality
Automatons – Life Inside the Unreal Machine
By Kingsley L. Dennis Source: Waking Times ɔːˈtɒmət(ə)n/ noun a moving mechanical device made in imitation of a human being. a machine which performs a range of functions according to a predetermined set of coded instructions. used in similes and … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Dystopia, media, Media Literacy, Philosophy, Psychology, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, surveillance state, Technocracy, Technology
Tagged Algorithms, artificial intelligence, Automatons, confirmation bias, Consciousness, culture, Dystopia, golems, Humanity, Hyperreality, idiocracy, media, Media Literacy, Philosophy, psychology, Robots, Social Media, society, Sociology, Technocracy, technology
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Phantom Performances – The Rise of the Spectacle
By Kingsley L. Dennis Source: Waking Times ˈspɛktək(ə)l/ noun a visually striking performance or display an event or scene regarded in terms of its visual impact “Now the death of God combined with the perfection of the image has brought … Continue reading
Posted in conditioning, consciousness, Consumerism, culture, Dystopia, media, Media Literacy, Oligarchy, Philosophy, propaganda, Psy-ops, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Spirituality, surveillance state, Technocracy, Technology
Tagged celebrity culture, Consumerism, culture, Hyperreality, media, Media Literacy, Morality, Narcissism, Oligarchy, Philosophy, propaganda, psychology, reality television, Selfie deaths, Social Media, society, Sociology, Spectacle, spirituality, surveillance state, Technocracy, technology
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Hyperreality (or What Not There Isn’t to Believe?)
By Kingsley L. Dennis Source: Waking Times ‘The attraction of the void is irresistible.’ ~Jean Baudrillard If you feel like you are unsure of what is real and what is unreal then you are not alone. Our materialistic mode of … Continue reading
Posted in consciousness, culture, Dystopia, Health, media, Media Literacy, Philosophy, Psy-ops, Psychology, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, surveillance state, Technology
Tagged Consciousness, culture, Dystopia, Hyperreality, media, Perception, Philosophy, Postmodern Theory, psychology, Reality, Semiotics, Simulation, society, Sociology, technology
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Lost in the Theatre of Data, Dada, and Emotional Manipulation
By Edward Curtin Source: OpEdNews.com “It is not only information that they need — in this Age of Fact, information often dominates their attention and overwhelms their capacities to assimilate it”What they need, and what they feel they need, is … Continue reading
Posted in consciousness, corporate news, culture, Dystopia, History, media, Media Literacy, Militarization, news, Philosophy, propaganda, Psy-ops, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, war
Tagged Consciousness, corporate media, culture, Dada, Gaza, history, Hyperreality, Marcel Duchamp, media, Phislosophy, propaganda, Psy-ops, society, technology, Theodor Adorno, war, World War I
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Unsouling From the Wilderness
By Kingsley L. Dennis Source: Waking Times “Crazy Horse dreamed and went into the world where there is nothing but the spirits of all things. That is the real world that is behind this one, and everything we see here is … Continue reading
Posted in conditioning, consciousness, Consumerism, culture, education, Environment, Health, media, Philosophy, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Spirituality
Tagged Black Elk, Consciousness, Consumerism, culture, Education, Fast Food, Hyperreality, industrial society, Jorge Luis Borges, materialism, Meaning, media, modernity, nature, Philosophy, psychology, society, Sociology, Soul, spirituality, technology, wilderness
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Weaponized Hyperreality: Social Engineering Through Corporate State Propaganda and Religion
By Luther Blissett and J. F. Sebastian of Arkesoul Perhaps no philosophical concept more aptly describes the current cultural milieu than hyperreality, characterized by wikipedia as “an inability of consciousness to distinguish reality from a simulation of reality, especially in … Continue reading
Posted in conditioning, consciousness, Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Empire, Film, Philosophy, propaganda, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Spirituality, war, war on terror
Tagged Archetypes, Critical Theory, Deep Politics, Dystopia, Fantasy, Geek Culture, Hero's Journey, hollywood, Hyperreality, Monomyth, Mysticism, Myths, Philosophy, Pop Culture, Post Modernism, Predictive Programming, propaganda, Psy-ops, Religion, Science fiction, Social Engineering, Star Wars, Super Heroes
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