Aldous Huxley 1958 über die Kontrolle der Massen #huxley #dystopie ...
▻https://diasp.eu/p/9012783
Aldous Huxley 1958 über die Kontrolle der Massen
Aldous Huxley 1958 über die Kontrolle der Massen #huxley #dystopie ...
▻https://diasp.eu/p/9012783
Aldous Huxley 1958 über die Kontrolle der Massen
#Orwell,#Huxley and America’s Plunge into Authoritarianism
▻http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/06/19/orwell-huxley-and-americas-plunge-into-authoritarianism
Orwell warns that we will be overcome by an externally imposed oppression. But in Huxley’s vision, no Big Brother is required to deprive people of their autonomy, maturity and history. As he saw it, people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think. What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. … As Huxley remarked in Brave New World Revisited, the civil libertarians and rationalists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny “failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions.” In 1984, Huxley added, people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure. In short, Orwell feared that what we hate will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we love will ruin us.
vachement bien cet article.
The fact is that Orwell’s and Huxley’s ironic representations of the modern totalitarian state – along with their implied defense of a democratic ideal rooted in the right to privacy and the right to be educated in the capacity to be autonomous and critical thinkers– has been transformed and mutilated almost beyond recognition by the material and ideological registers of a worldwide neoliberal order. Just as we can envision Orwell’s and Huxley’s dystopian fables morphing over time from “realistic novels” into a “real life documentary,” and now into a form of “reality TV,” privacy and freedom have been radically altered in an age of permanent, non-stop global exchange and circulation. That is, in the current moment, the right to privacy and freedom have been usurped by the seductions of a narcissistic culture and casino capitalism’s unending desire to turn every relationship into an act of commerce and to make all aspects of daily life subject to market forces under watchful eyes of both government and corporate regimes of #surveillance.
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#libéralisme #néolibéralisme #totalitarisme #narcissisme #imaginaire #vie_privée #marchandisation
#Intel Aims For Post-Smartphone Era With SD Card-Sized Computer | Singularity Hub
▻http://singularityhub.com/2014/01/09/intel-aims-for-post-smartphone-era-with-sd-card-sized-computer
une nouvelle #puce pour les #wearable_computers (ordinateurs intégrés aux montres, lunettes etc). Avec un exemple qui va ravir @touti :
For example, Mimo baby monitor is a wearable device that builds on Edison. A lapel pin of sorts for baby onesies, the device monitors movement and breathing; when the little one starts to stir, it directly triggers a connected bottle warmer to begin heating up some breast milk or formula.
Ferme bien la porte de sa chambre en partant travailler, la caméra de vidéosurveillance wifi qui détecte les mouvements s’il se réveille t’enverra de ses nouvelles (►http://bigbrotherawards.eu.org/Projet-PRISMATICA-RATP), son nounours (►http://souriez.info/+la-peluche-flic+) enregistrera ses premiers babillements, le bracelet électronique déclenchera une alarme quand il tombera du 4em étage (▻http://bigbrotherawards.eu.org/Le-Centre-hospitalier-universitaire-CHU-de) et le sms du collège te préviendra qu’il n’est pas venu en cours.
Très pratique ce #meilleur_des_mondes et déjà adopté par 99,4% de la population ! #huxley_revient
Amusing Ourselves to Death by Stuart McMillen - cartoon Recombinant Records
►http://www.recombinantrecords.net/docs/2009-05-Amusing-Ourselves-to-Death.html
et du son à sampler... ^^