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Cyberpunk is Dead
By John Semley Source: The Baffler “It was an embarrasser; what did I want? I hadn’t thought that far ahead. Me, caught without a program!” —Bruce Bethke, “Cyberpunk” (1983) Held annually in a downtown L.A. convention center so massive and … Continue reading
Posted in Art, culture, Dystopia, Film, media, police state, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Technocracy, Technology
Tagged Akira, Blade Runner, corporatocracy, culture, Cyberpunk, Cyberpunk 2077, Cyborg, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Dystopia, E3, Japanese Cinema, Johnny Mnemonic, Katsuhiro Otomo, Keanu Reeves, media, Neal Stephenson, Neuromancer, Philip K. Dick, PKD, Science fiction, Shinya Tsukamoto, Snow Crash, society, Technocracy, technology, Tetsuo: The Iron Man, Total Recall, William Gibson
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Saturday Matinee: Radio Free Albemuth
In light of Philip K. Dick’s birthday tomorrow (he would have been 90), it’s an appropriate time to visit (or revisit) the film adaptation of his posthumously published novel “Radio Free Albemuth”. Being a longtime PKD fan and one of … Continue reading
Posted in Art, culture, Film, Saturday Matinee, Uncategorized, Video
Tagged Dystopia, John Alan Simon, Philip K. Dick, PKD, Radio Free Albemuth, Science fiction
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Saturday Matinee: The Man Who Fell to Earth
“The Man Who Fell to Earth” (1976) is a British science fiction film directed by Nicolas Roeg, written by Paul Mayersberg, and based on Walter Tevis’s 1963 novel of the same name. David Bowie (in his first feature film role) … Continue reading
Posted in Art, culture, Film, Saturday Matinee, society, Video
Tagged David Bowie, Nicolas Roeg, PKD, Science fiction, The Man Who Fell to Earth
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Philip K. Dick and the Fake Humans
(Editor’s note: on this 36th anniversary of the passing of Philip K. Dick, it seems an appropriate time to note the relevance of his work to our current dystopia as Henry Farrell does in the following essay. Unfortunately the author … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Authoritarianism, consciousness, Conspiracy, culture, Dirty Politics, Dystopia, Empire, Hackers, media, news, police state, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, society, Sociology, Technology
Tagged Aldous Huxley, Algorithms, automation, big data, Consciousness, Dystopia, Fake News, George Orwell, Philip K. Dick, PKD, politics, propaganda, Reality, sci-fi, Science fiction, Social Media, Sociology, technology
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Four Kinds of Dystopia
By Darren Allen Source: ExpressiveEgg.org The twentieth century saw four basic visions of hell on earth, or dystopia. These were: Orwellian. Rule by autocratic totalitarian people, party or elite group, limitation of choice, repression of speech and repression of minorities, … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, consciousness, culture, Dystopia, media, Philosophy, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, surveillance state
Tagged Aldous Huxley, Bureaucracy, Dystopia, Franz Kafka, George Orwell, Newspeak, Philip K. Dick, PKD, society, Totalitarianism, Virtuality
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Future Crimes
By John Steppling Source: CounterPunch “Precrime Analytical Wing: Contains the precognitives and the machinery needed to hear and analyze their predictions of future crimes.” Philip K. Dick, Minority Report “I must confess that over the past few years I have … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Art, Authoritarianism, censorship, CIA, consciousness, corporate news, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, Geopolitics, History, media, Neocons, news, Philosophy, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, war
Tagged Art, CIA, civil liberties, Class Divide, Clinton, Cold War, Dystopia, Emperialism, empire, free speech, hollywood, media, Minority Report, Neocons, new McCarthyism, Obama, Philosophy, PKD, police state, Precrime, The Guardian, Trump, war
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Hybrid Landscapes – From Posthistoric to Posthuman
By Kingsley L. Dennis Source: Reality Sandwich The collective psyche seems to be in the grip of a powerful archetypal dynamic in which the long-alienated modern mind is breaking through, out of the contractions of its birth process, out of what … Continue reading
Posted in Art, consciousness, culture, Dystopia, History, Philosophy, Psychology, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Spirituality, Technology
Tagged Animism, Archaic Revival, civilization, Consciousness, culture, Dystopia, Erik Davis, Philip K. Dick, Philosophy, PKD, Post Humanism, Quantum Physics, spirituality, technology, Transhumanism
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6 The Enlightened Madness of Philip K. Dick: The Black Iron Prison and Wetiko
(Editor’s note: Today happens to mark the anniversary of the birth of Philip K. Dick on December 16, 1928.) By Paul Levy There is something terribly wrong in our world. The Native American people have a term—wetiko—that can really help … Continue reading
Posted in Art, consciousness, culture, Dystopia, Empire, History, media, Philosophy, Psychology, Social Control, society, Spirituality
Tagged Authenticity, Black Iron Prison, Consciousness, Cosmology, Dystopia, empire, Gnosis, Gnosticism, Philip K. Dick, Philosophy, PKD, Reality, Science fiction, Wetiko
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