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Tag Archives: Spectacle
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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Are We Living Haunted Lives?
By Kingsley L. Dennis Source: Waking Times ‘Fear has many eyes And can see things underground’ ~Cervantes, Don Quixote The world as we know it has gone from being flat to round; from being the center of the universe to the … Continue reading
Posted in consciousness, Consumerism, corporate news, culture, Dystopia, Environment, Health, media, Philosophy, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Spirituality, Technology
Tagged Augmented Reality, Consciousness, Consumerism, corporate media, culture, Dystopia, HyperNormal, media, modernity, Philosophy, Smartphone, Social Media, society, Spectacle, spirituality, technology, Truth, Virtual Reality
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Manufacturing Panic: Social Engineering, Domination and Control
By S.C. Hickman Source: Techno Occulture In the 21st century, the social engineering of dread and longing have evolved into a bio-political arena of terror and a psycho-political culture of internalized domination. The globally deployed technology of the spectacle transforms … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, conditioning, consciousness, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, education, media, Neoliberalism, Philosophy, propaganda, Psy-ops, Psychology, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, surveillance state, Technology
Tagged automation, Consciousness, Cybernetics, Deep State, Dystopia, JPL, media, Philosophy, propaganda, social control, Social Engineering, Spectacle, surveillance state, Technocracy, technology
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The Eye of the Beholder: There is Never Anything New
A review of John Steppling’s new book, Aesthetic Resistance and Dis-Interest By Paul Haeder Source: Dissident Voice it is through mimesis, (identification with the mirror image) that one gains a sense of unity, self-containment and mastery over the body. If … Continue reading
Posted in Art, conditioning, consciousness, Consumerism, corporate news, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Financial Crisis, History, Philosophy, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology
Tagged Adorno, Aesthetic Resistance and Dis-Interest, Art, Consumerism, Economics, Entertainment, John Steppling, Mass Media, Mimesis, Neoliberalism, Philosophy, Spectacle, Western Culture
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Breaking the chains: precarity in the Age of Anxiety
By Joseph Todd Source: RoarMag.org In our Age of Anxiety, society assaults us from every possible angle with an avalanche of uncertainty. How do we fight back under conditions of precarity? An Age of Anxiety is upon us, one where … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, conditioning, consciousness, Consumerism, culture, Dystopia, Economics, education, Financial Crisis, Health, History, Labor, Philosophy, Psychology, Recession, Social Control, society, surveillance state, Technology, Work
Tagged Anxiety, Commodification, Community, Consumerism, Debt, Dystopia, economic crisis, Economics, Education, Employment, Housing, Labor, Medicalization, Neoliberalism, Precariats, Quantified Self, Revolution, society, Spectacle, surveillance, technology, Work
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The Crisis of the Now: Distracted and Diverted from the Ever-Encroaching Police State
By John W. Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby talk, when, in short, a … Continue reading
Posted in civil liberties, conditioning, consciousness, corporate news, culture, Dystopia, media, Militarization, news, Philosophy, police state, propaganda, Psychology, Social Control, society, Sociology, surveillance state, Technology
Tagged Battlefield America, corporate media, corporate news, Distraction, Diversion, Jacques Ellul, Militarization, News Cycle, police state, Prisons, schools, Spectacle, Television
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