The Event 201 simulates the outbreak of a new coronavirus of animal origin that is transmitted from bats to swine and eventually manages to be transmitted from human to human, …
Fear is the best medicine (of the system)
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 …
Education at the threshold of the 4th industrial revolution
The education system as we know it is only about 200 years old. Before that, formal education was mostly reserved for the elite. But as industrialization changed the way we …
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 …
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 …
the castration of flies
An important discovery is set to provide new possibilities in dealing with the Mediterranean fruit fly and the olive fruit fly, two insects that are particularly harmful to crops. After …
the racist origins of the American high-tech industry
How the tools built for the U.S. census fueled the Nazi genocide, concentration camps, and state racism—and helped launch the digital age. On a frozen December day in 1896, an …
the ideological management of climate change
“In the event that intense climate change phenomena occur, that is, an average global temperature increase of 2.6 degrees Celsius by 2040, then large-scale non-linear environmental events will cause large-scale …
neurobehavioral signals: “health” instead of “defense”
The proposal is fitting for its time: by collecting personal data from various sources, suitable algorithms can make a “psychiatric diagnosis” – enough to identify potential mass killers… In the …
big data: monitoring and shaping behaviors in the 4th industrial revolution
Surveillance has been transformed from an element of governance into governance itself. It is simultaneously government (system) and governability (self-awareness and cooperation, where the prisoner becomes the guardian of himself). …