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Dystopia
Systems, control, and the machinery of compliance. What happens when power stops needing your consent to work — and starts needing your cooperation instead.
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The Rise of Invisible Control
We don’t need to be controlled anymore. We just need to believe we’re choosing. So where does your agency end?
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War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery. Dystopian Design Inspired by 1984
In George Orwell’s dystopian masterpiece “1984,” three paradoxical phrases resonate powerfully in our current society: “War is peace, Freedom is…
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Max Headroom t-shirt
Max Headroom remains a cyberpunk icon. This Memetic Tees design channels the glitchy, anti-corporate energy of Network 23—made for fans…
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Cyberpunk, High-Tech, Low-Life T-shirts
High-tech, low-life was never a prediction. It was a description that arrived early. Now it’s just the weather.
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Poor Impulse Control T-shirt
In the excelent novel “Snow Crash” by Neal Stephenson one of the characters, Raven, gets a tatto with the phrase…
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Fahrenheit 451 T-shirt
Fahrenheit 451 is Ray Bradbury’s timeless classic, frightening vision of the future where firemen don’t put out fires —they start…
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In the Beginning… Was the Command Line
This is the title of an essay by Neal Stephenson published online in 1999. From the Wikipedia: “The essay is…