Tagged: cybernetics

In Pursuit of Utopia #4: “Common Sense”

From https://schoolsucksproject.com/bonus-in-pursuit-of-utopia-episode-4-common-sense/: Today we take a look at the aims and ideals of the American and French revolutions as well as the results. How’d they go? France quickly descended into headlessness, and the USA...

In Pursuit of Utopia #3: “Noble Lies”

From https://schoolsucksproject.com/bonus-in-pursuit-of-utopia-episode-3-noble-lies/: Daniel McCarthy and I continue on monthly discussion on the history of Utopian visions and their consequences. In this episode:“The development from Aquinas through Locke and Newton represents more than four hundred...

In Pursuit of Utopia #2: “Illumination”

From https://schoolsucksproject.com/bonus-in-pursuit-of-utopia-episode-2-illumination/: Daniel McCarthy and I continue on monthly discussion on the history of Utopian visions and their consequences. In this episode: In the 17th century a small group of religious luminaries built a colonial...

In Pursuit of Utopia #1: “From the Top Down”

From https://schoolsucksproject.com/bonus-the-pursuit-of-utopia-episode-one-from-the-top-down/: This is the pilot episode in a new monthly historical series with Daniel McCarthy. Danny is a 24-year-old SSP listener, blogger and researcher, and the author of an upcoming book on the...

Tech-talitarianism and the Diffuse Panopticon Model

Totalitarianism is an authoritarian ideology, within which all power – individual and societal – is generated and held (or claimed to be) by a monolithic, all-encompassing state. A dictator or tyrant is a hallmark...