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 […]
Technology/Mind Control
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 […]
Making Social Media Work for You
From New Dawn Special Issue Vol 16 No 1 (Feb 2022) You are the product. Your personal data are sold to brokers and advertisers against your informed consent to profit the uber-rich, like Facebook’s (now “Meta”) co-founder, Mark Zuckerberg.1 But […]