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How to Avert a Digital Dystopia
By Jumana Abu-Ghazaleh Source: OneZero “What I find [ominous] is how seldom, today, we see the phrase ‘the 22nd century.’ Almost never. Compare this with the frequency with which the 21st century was evoked in popular culture during, say, the … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Authoritarianism, Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, internet freedom, media, Oligarchy, police state, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy, Technology
Tagged Amazon, Apple, Black Mirror, culture, Dystopia, Elysium, Facebook, Google, Jeff Bezos, Mad Max, media, Nosedive, Pop Culture, Ready Player One, society, surveillance capitalism, surveillance state, Technocracy, technology, Utopia
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The Fine Edge Between Comedy and Horror: The Millions Interviews Margaret Atwood
By Claire Cameron Source: The Millions The Heart Goes Last — Margaret Atwood’s first standalone novel since The Blind Assassin, which won the Man Booker in 2000 — is a novel that teeters on the fine edge between comedy and horror. The … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Financial Crisis, media
Tagged Debt, Dystopia, Maddaddam, Margaret Atwood, Payback, Prisons, Stephen Harper, The Heart Goes Last, Utopia
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Insurrection and Utopia, Part 1: “We are Eating From a Trashcan; This Trashcan is Ideology.”
By Dr. Bones Source: Gods and Radicals It all started innocently enough. A friend asked me a question on facebook: “How can you advocate anarchic revolution when your political vision is so far in the minority?” The underlying premise was a … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, civil disobedience, civil liberties, conditioning, consciousness, Corruption, culture, Economics, FBI, History, Labor, Militarization, Philosophy, police state, Revolution, Social Control, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technology, Work
Tagged activism, Anarchism, capitalism, Insurrection, Revolution, Ruling Class, Socialism, State, technology, Uber, Utopia
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The Role of Dystopian Fiction in a Dystopian World
By Luther Blissett and J. F. Sebastian of Arkesoul A few years ago, Neal Stephenson wrote a widely-shared article called Innovation Starvation for the World Policy Institute. He began the piece lamenting our inability to fulfill the hopes and dreams … Continue reading
Posted in Art, culture, Dystopia, Film, History, media, Philosophy, society, Sociology, Technology
Tagged Art, civilization, culture, Cyberpunk, Dystopia, environment, Government, language, media, Philosophy, sci-fi, Science fiction, society, technology, Utopia
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America’s Mania for Positive Thinking and Denial of Reality Will Be Our Downfall
The ridiculous positivism, the belief that we are headed toward some glorious future, defies reality. By Chris Hedges Source: Alternet The naive belief that history is linear, that moral progress accompanies technical progress, is a form of collective self-delusion. It … Continue reading
Posted in conditioning, consciousness, culture, Economics, History, Philosophy, propaganda, Psychology, Science, Social Control, society, Technology
Tagged Chris Hedges, Dark Ages, Dystopia, Global Capitalism, Hannah Arendt, Knowledge, Magical Thinking, Positivism, Progress, Technocracy, Utopia, Wisdom
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Utopia: The Final Frontier
By Sadie Doyle Source: The Baffler Leonard Nimoy, who passed away this past Friday, was less an actor than an icon, an ever-present figure and a seemingly universal pop-culture touchstone. What struck me, upon hearing the news of his death, … Continue reading
Posted in Art, culture, Economics, media, Science, society
Tagged Economics, Leonard Nimoy, Mr. Spock, Post-Capitalism, Sadie Doyle, Star Trek, The Baffler, Utopia
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It’s Time for Some Anti-Science Fiction
Source: The Hipcrime Vocab It’s Time for Some Anti-Science Fiction Why must positive depictions of the future always be dependent upon some sort of new technology? Neal Stephenson is a very successful and well-known science fiction writer. He’s also very … Continue reading
Posted in Art, culture, Environment, Financial Crisis, media, police state, Recession, Science, Social Control, society, surveillance state, Technology
Tagged Anti-Science Fiction, Drones, Dystopia, economic inequality, Environmental Collapse, Futurism, Neal Stephenson, News From Nowhere, Pessimism, Project Hieroglyph, surveillance state, technology, the Hipcrime Vocab, Transnational Elites, Utopia, William Morris
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Top AIDS Researchers Killed in Malaysia Airlines Crash
Source: Cryptogon Utopia, Series 2 Episode 1, 14 July 2014, Channel4, Britain: “We have to plant a bomb on board the plane and we have to kill all of them.” Utopia is probably the best show I’ve ever seen on … Continue reading
Posted in Art, black ops, culture, Geopolitics, media, news, Psy-ops, Social Control, society, State Crime
Tagged AIDS, Kiev, Malaysia Airlines, MH17, Ukraine, Utopia
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