The Strange Life and Death of Dr Turing - Part 1 of 2
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Friday, December 27, 2013
Saturday, December 21, 2013
Inverted Totalitaranism
"the democracy of the United States is sanitized of political participation and refers to it as managed democracy. He defines managed democracy as "a political form in which governments are legitimated by elections that they have learned to control". Under managed democracy, the electorate is prevented from having a significant impact on policies adopted by the state through the continuous employment of public relations techniques."
and
"the essential role that propaganda plays in the system. According to Wolin, whereas the production of propaganda was crudely centralized in WWII Germany, in the United States it is left to highly concentrated media corporations, thus maintaining the illusion of a "free press". Dissent is allowed, although the corporate media serves as a filter, allowing most people, with limited time available to keep themselves apprised of current events, only to hear points of view which the corporate media deems to be "serious""
via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_totalitarianism
and
"the essential role that propaganda plays in the system. According to Wolin, whereas the production of propaganda was crudely centralized in WWII Germany, in the United States it is left to highly concentrated media corporations, thus maintaining the illusion of a "free press". Dissent is allowed, although the corporate media serves as a filter, allowing most people, with limited time available to keep themselves apprised of current events, only to hear points of view which the corporate media deems to be "serious""
via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_totalitarianism
Thursday, December 19, 2013
Albert Camus
‘Every act of rebellion expresses nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.’
[Albert Camus]
[Albert Camus]
Albert Camus (French: [albɛʁ kamy] (
); 7 November 1913 – 4 January 1960) was an Algerian-French Nobel Prize winning author, journalist, and philosopher. His views contributed to the rise of the philosophy known as absurdism. He wrote in his essay "The Rebel" that his whole life was devoted to opposing the philosophy ofnihilism while still delving deeply into individual freedom.
); 7 November 1913 – 4 January 1960) was an Algerian-French Nobel Prize winning author, journalist, and philosopher. His views contributed to the rise of the philosophy known as absurdism. He wrote in his essay "The Rebel" that his whole life was devoted to opposing the philosophy ofnihilism while still delving deeply into individual freedom.
Although often cited as a proponent of existentialism, the philosophy with which Camus was associated during his own lifetime, he rejected this particular label.[1] In an interview in 1945, Camus rejected any ideological associations: "No, I am not an existentialist. Sartre and I are always surprised to see our names linked..."[2](However, upon reconsideration, Sartre later accepted the association to existentialism).
Camus was born in French Algeria to a Pied-Noir family. He studied at theUniversity of Algiers, where he was goalkeeper for the university team (association football), until he contracted tuberculosis in 1930. In 1949, Camus founded the Group for International Liaisons within the Revolutionary Union Movement after his split with Garry Davis's Citizens of the World movement.[3] The formation of this group, according to Camus, was intended to "denounce two ideologies found in both the USSR and the USA" regarding their idolatry of technology.[4]
Camus was awarded the 1957 Nobel Prize for Literature "for his important literary production, which with clear-sighted earnestness illuminates the problems of the human conscience in our times".[5]
Tuesday, December 10, 2013
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