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Tag Archives: Utopia
Healing from Dissonance and Dystopia
Accepting the inevitability of cascading collapse creates space to build alternatives beyond a system based on extraction and exploitation. By Natalie Holmes Source: Post Growth Institute The beach was pure perfection. March’s sunshine warmed the wintry air. Cobalt waves lapped … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Economics, Environment, Philosophy, Psychology, society, Sociology, war
Tagged capitalism, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Hanya Yanagihara, Joanna Macy, Monika Bielskyte, Philosophy, post growth, protopia, society, To Paradise, Utopia
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Big Tech, Nostalgia, and Control: Grafton Tanner’s ‘The Circle of the Snake’
By Michael Grasso Source: We Are the Mutants The Circle of the Snake: Nostalgia and Utopia in the Age of Big Tech By Grafton Tanner Zero Books, 2020 I’m sure many members of Generation X have taken a moment to … Continue reading
Posted in Art, consciousness, Consumerism, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Financial Crisis, History, media, Media Literacy, Philosophy, propaganda, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, surveillance state, Technocracy, Technology
Tagged Big Tech, Center for Humane Technology, Consumerism, culture, Dystopia, Economics, financial crisis, Google, Grafton Tanner, media, nostalgia, Philosophy, propaganda, Radical nostalgia, society, Technocracy, technology, The Circle of the Snake, Tristan Harris, Utopia
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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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Desultory Heroics 