Hygiene phobias (of all scales and intensities) are a direct expression of fears related to ablebodiedness, youth and death. For a (measured!) century now, (eternal) youth and immortality have been …
The company knows… What about the state?
The (official) data show that the chinese government has managed to control the spread of the infection and then (as a result) the deaths from the steadily “weak” covid-19. The …
The epidemic
While sinophobia (with the “argument” of covid-19…) continues, albeit somewhat numb (hardly anything can be attributed to the chinese state, other than the easy and arbitrary accusation that they are …
The smart surveillance weapons of the fourth world war
September 19, 2019: An attack by American drones in the Afghan province of Nangarhar resulted in the mass murder of 30 farm workers and the injury of another 40, while …
smart contracts: when bureaucracy becomes intelligent
Those who have visited the tax office for some procedural work, surely did not return with pleasant memories. With interesting stories and hair-raising details perhaps, but certainly not with an …
the internet and the death of criticism
Our planet is a sphere, or rather a flattened sphere, slightly compressed at the poles and a bit wider at its equator; anyway, real planets have their curves. But our …
neuromechanics as a generator of realities
A real encounter with non-existent worlds for our Western rational civilization—and yet existent, if you accept the effort to discover them. Genuine experiences of contact with things behind the apparent, …
reality in decline (and in sales)
In every historical era, there is a core set of ideas through which a society understands itself and which outline its worldview. Ideas that in other times would seem bizarre …
liberation from reality: the last slavery…
From deep digital forgery (deep fake) to the digital spread and popularity of “conspiracy theories”; from pathological attachment/addiction to personal remote controls (smart phones) to machine-to-machine communication: the parameters of …
climate change and 4th industrial revolution
…It is now widely recognized that an unprecedented level of collaboration and innovation will be needed, involving many beyond the public sector, to advance the major, systemic transitions required in …
Impersonation
Alice Bergmann lives in Chemnitz, germany, and has a serious problem with islam. She must overcome an overwhelming shock, the murder of her sister Elizabeth a few years ago in …
the digital (and not so much) fronts of the fourth world war: the example of Israel
A characterization consistently attributed to the fourth world war, even by those who refuse to recognize it as such, is that of hybrid war. Hybrid, because orthodox and unorthodox methods …