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The Future Is Here: Dystopian Movies Fit for a Dystopian World
By John W. Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “The Internet is watching us now. If they want to. They can see what sites you visit. In the future, television will be watching us, and customizing itself to what it knows … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Authoritarianism, culture, Dystopia, Film, Militarization, Oligarchy, police state, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy
Tagged 1984, A Brave New World, Aldous Huxley, Art, culture, Dystopia, film, George Orwell, Government, Literature, Margaret Atwood, Minority Report i, Philip K. Dick, police state, Science fiction, society, state violence, surveillance state, Technocracy, The Handmaid’s Tale
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Cyberpunk: The Human Condition amid High-tech Alienation and Urban Dystopia
By Raymond Lam Source: BuddhistDoor.net I love the seashore and the countryside, but I have spent most of my life in cities, with little to no time spent in the country. I grew up in Brisbane, Australia (which, despite its … Continue reading
Posted in Art, culture, Dystopia, media, Philosophy, society, Sociology, Technology
Tagged Buddhism, Consciousness, culture, Cyberpunk, Dystopia, J.G. Ballard, Literature, media, Philosophy, Science fiction, society, technology
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“One Long Discomfort”: The Legacy and Future of David Lindsay’s ‘A Voyage to Arcturus’
By Ben Schwartz Source: We Are the Mutants David Lindsay’s masterpiece A Voyage to Arcturus was first published in London in 1920 by Methuen & Co. It came dressed in a simple red cloth cover; no dust jacket, just the … Continue reading
Posted in Art, culture, Dystopia, media, Philosophy, Psychology, Social Control, society, Sociology
Tagged A Voyage to Arcturus, Books, culture, David Lindsay, Dystopia, Fantasy, Literature, media, Philosophy, psychology, Sociology, Speculative Fiction
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Snow, Death, and the Bewildered Herd
By Edward Curtin Source: Behind the Curtain Few people at this hour – and I refer to the time before the breaking out of this most grim war, which is coming to birth so strangely, as if it did not … Continue reading
Posted in Art, consciousness, culture, History, media, news, Philosophy, propaganda, Psychology, society, Technology, Uncategorized
Tagged Boris Pasternak, C. Wright Mills, Cybernetics, Death, Eugene Ionesco, Information, Jacques Ellul, Literature, Marshall McLuhan, media, news, propaganda, technology, Walter Lippman
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Desultory Heroics 