On 14th October 2020 an email was sent to a publication called The Canadian Report from an anonymous source purporting to be a member of the Strategic Planning Committee of the Liberal Party of Canada (under the Prime Minister’s Office), tasked with creating a plan to achieve 100% compliance with the plan outlined in the […]
Featured image: “Double” by Lena Mikulinskaya Doppelgänger stories came into fashion during the Industrial Revolution, as an archetype in Gothic horror. But while their atmosphere, tone and settings might draw on the imagined irrationalism of the medieval past, such stories unconsciously tap into something powerful but unacknowledged in the contemporary scene at the beginnings of […]
ON EXACTITUDE IN SCIENCE In that Empire, the Art of Cartography attained such Perfection that the map of a single Province occupied the entirety of a City, and the map of the Empire, the entirety of a Province. In time, those Unconscionable Maps no longer satisfied, and the Cartographers Guilds struck a Map of the […]
“It might sound great to turn it on — but what if it doesn’t turn off?” Until 2020, I’d never taken much interest in Elon Musk. In late January I was on a farm in North-East Thailand when an evenly spaced line of satellites passed overhead before dawn. Checking online, I confirmed that it was a SpaceX […]
∆ In 1998, Bill Joy, the founder and Chief Scientist of Sun Microsystems, co-author of Java script and chair of a presidential commission on the future of IT research, was invited to speak at a tech conference. The title of the conference was ‘Telecosm: the World after Bandwidth Abundance’. “From the moment I became involved in […]
My good friend Aaron the Seneca is sceptical. ‘Who would have thought I was so important?’ he asks, with gentle irony. ‘I know, right?’ I say. I know what he means. He’s not talking about himself: he means all of us.
Who would want to spy on nobodies like us?
Revised 13/12/2024 Tues 7 January, 2563 BE (2020 AD). The old lady was up before dawn, as she always is. She and her husband farm a few rai of land in Isan, North-Eastern Thailand, growing vegetables, rice and sugar. On this landlocked plain it gets hellishly hot in the middle of the day, and the […]
THE CONSPIRACY MYTH by Charles Eisenstein — A Response ‘The first hints of a philosophy of the ultimate revolution — the revolution which lies beyond politics and economics, and which aims at total subversion of the individual’s psychology and physiology — are to be found in the Marquis de Sade, who regarded himself as the […]
FASCISM IN THE UK “Oh God, I could be bounded in a nut shell and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams.” Hamlet, II ii On the 1st March, 1933, the German people awoke to find themselves living in a ‘new normal’. After someone tried to burn […]
PARIJAH DIARIES 2 April 18 2020 Kriminalvården Anstalten Tygelsjö Skiftesvägen 10 218 74 Tygelsjö Sweden Attn: Xxxxx Xxxxxx Hallo my friend Well shit, if you had to go away for ten months for growing indoor plants, you chose the right time! We’re all in prison now. I don’t mean to minimise what you’re going through, […]