WEEK 8
TUTESPARK & TUTORIAL TASK

I really liked looking into the Cyberpunk idea of corporate control over society. The tutespark website states this idea as a powerful controlling entity that directs society. Most often this is represented as a corporation. Some times its simply an ever present singular government. A common theme for corporate control involves a futuristic dystopia, where the last traces of high civilization exist only in an enclosed and protected city, where civil liberties are removed under the guise of protecting humanity.

This idea of an all controlling corporation that has taken over the role of conventional governments. Has been present in numerous movies from Children of Men, Equilibrium to V for Vendetta. All these movies and literature that promote this theme can all be traced back to the argument that was argued by Plato that we heard in this weeks lecture. That reality was expressed in hidden forms that could only be appreciated by an elite who thus had the duty to use the arbitrary powers of the police state to enforce a harshidealism. There are certain people who view our ongoing reliance on technolgy as new and improved ways to control us and make us behave a certain way. People who take this view see the rise in power of corporations and their impact on society as an acceptable form of uniform slavery.

"I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country." (Thomas Jefferson)

Disclose.tv - V for Vendetta Speech Video

After much searching I found an interesting article located on, The Onion website that was actually two articles in one. The article titled, "The Future will be a Totalitarian Government Dystopia vs. The Future will be a Privatised Corporate Dystopia." , that outlined what two people thought the future was going to be like. One thought the future will be a totalitarian government dystopia, where our very existence would be nothing more than to serve the leader through any means necessary. While the other person predicted a future of a privatised corporate dystopia where all of our senses are bombarded at every opportunity with corporate logos and advertising. In the next post of my blog you will see my attempt at writing my own response to their predictions of the future.