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Why We Need Dystopian Fiction Now More Than Ever
By August Cole and P.W. Singer Source: Slate It hits you every so often. When you when you tug on a face mask to go pick up food for your family. When you witness the powerless suffer casual violence by … Continue reading
Posted in Art, consciousness, culture, media, Media Literacy, Philosophy, Psychology, society, Sociology, surveillance state, Technocracy
Tagged Art, coronavirus, Covid-19, culture, Dystopia, media, Narrative, Pandemic, Science fiction, society, Speculative Fiction, surveillance state, Technocracy
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America Has Always Been a Dystopia
Too many of us just haven’t been paying attention By Bryan Merchant Source: OneZero “Trump’s American dystopia has reached a new and ominous cliff,” warns a CNN opinion headline. “The last two and a half months in America have felt like the … Continue reading
Posted in Art, culture, Dystopia, Film, Inequality, media, Media Literacy, Oligarchy, police state, Racism, society, Sociology, surveillance state, Technocracy
Tagged America, coronavirus, culture, Dystopia, Gil Scott-Heron, media, Pandemic, racism, Science fiction, society, SpaceX, Whitey’s On the Moon
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Minority Report (2002) Esoteric Analysis
By Jay Dyer Source: Jay’s Analysis Spielberg’s Minority Report is now an important film to revisit. Based on the short story by visionary science fiction author Phillip K. Dick, Spielberg’s film version implements an important number of predictive programming elements … Continue reading
Posted in Art, conditioning, culture, Dystopia, Film, NSA, Oligarchy, Philosophy, police state, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, surveillance state, Technocracy, Technology
Tagged 1984, A.I., Afghanistan, algorithmic tracking, Apple, DARPA, Dystopia, elites, Google, Minority Report, NSA, panopticon, Phillip K. Dick, Philosophy, police state, Precrime, Science fiction, Silicon Valley, Siri, Steven Spielberg, surveillance state, Technocracy, technology, Ubik
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Saturday Matinee: Rakka
From Oats Studios Rakka is the story of broken humanity following the invasion of a technologically superior alien species. Bleak, harrowing and unrelenting, the humans we meet must find enough courage to go on fighting. Directed by Neill Blomkamp and … Continue reading
Posted in Art, culture, Film, Saturday Matinee, Video
Tagged Dystopia, Neill Blomkamp, Rakka, Science fiction, Short Film, Sigourney Weaver
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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: John Dies at the End
“John Dies at the End” (2012) is a sci-fi/horror/comedy written and directed by Don Coscarelli and based on David Wong’s novel of the same name. Like Phantasm, it’s a cross-genre cult film involving an inter-dimensional invasion by body-snatching aliens, but … Continue reading
Posted in Art, culture, Film, Humor, Saturday Matinee, Video
Tagged Clancy Brown, comedy, Cult film, David Wong, Don Coscarelli, Doug Jone, Horror, John Dies at the End, Paul Giamatti, Phantasm, Science fiction
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Saturday Matinee: Corporate Monster
By Rob Munday Source: Short of the Week From New Coke to the New World Order, conspiracy theories are rich throughout history and that stranger you meet in the bar, or family member you get stuck with at a wedding, … Continue reading
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Tagged Corporate Monster, Dystopia, Eoin Rogers, Ruairi Robinson, Science fiction, Short Film, They Live
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The Varieties of Psychonautic Experience: Erik Davis’s ‘High Weirdness’
By Michael Grasso Source: We Are the Mutants High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experience in the Seventies By Erik Davis Strange Attractor Press/MIT Press, 2019 Two months ago, I devoured Erik Davis’s magisterial 2019 book High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, … Continue reading
Posted in Art, consciousness, culture, Dystopia, History, media, Philosophy, Psychology, society, Sociology, Spirituality, Technocracy, Technology
Tagged 1970s, Consciousness, Cybernetics, drugs, Entheogens, Erik Davis, Esoterica, High Weirdness, history, Neuroscience, parapsychology, Philip K. Dick, Philosophy, Psychedelics, Robert Anton Wilson, Science fiction, Shamansism, spirituality, Technocracy, Terence McKenna, the Seventies, Visionary Experience
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