From New Dawn 168 (May-June 2018) In our industrialised societies of 24/7 connectivity and e-Everything, almost every aspect of daily life is mediated by some form of technology. The worlds of work, education, leisure, food, transport, health, media and many […]
Technology/Mind Control
The Society of the Spectacle: “The whole world is becoming humanoid”
From New Dawn 195 (Nov-Dec 2022) In the 1960s, a French intellectual came up with a novel theory on life in the 20th century. The basis of the theory was that in modern capitalist consumer societies like France, the United […]
Hyperreality, Synchromysticism & Simulation
From New Dawn 195 (Nov-Dec 2022) We are the first digital inhabitants of a universe of pure symbolic media exchange, living in an empty space of virtuality, where subjectivity and objective truth have intertwined together. At the core of this […]
Attack on the Mind: Mental Health Fall-out From Cognitive Warfare Techniques
From New Dawn 193 (Jul-Aug 2022) Even the mainstream media and global health organisations cannot ignore the massive toll COVID-19, the Ukraine/Russia conflict, vaccine and mask mandates, geopolitical chaos, rising inflation, and new threats – real and imagined – have […]
Where Are We Going? Dystopian Futures & the Work of Philip K. Dick
From New Dawn Special Issue Vol 15 No 5 (Oct 2021) Founded in the aftermath of the first nucleus-splitting explosions in the 1940s, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is a panel of nuclear and other specialists. Every year, they […]