Tag Archives: entertainment

25/05/2017 current-events | entertainment | health | internet | research | science Feitosa-Santana

Role of gossip in our evolution

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoGJlEhmOyI

10/08/2013 Alice Braga | Elysium Crítica | Elysium Review | entertainment | Health Care System | Immigration and Deportation | No access to Treatment Feitosa-Santana

Elysium (2013) Review

Written, co-produced and directed by Neill Blomkamp, Elysium means a place or condition of ideal happiness. The movie happens in 2154 but it is an obvious metaphor for life on Earth nowadays. It is so obvious that when the director was asked about his science fiction, he answered “No, no, no. This isn’t science fiction. This is today. […]

21/07/2013 1984 George Orwell | Aldous Huxley Admirable New World | Cinema | edward snowden | entertainment | House of Cards | human-rights | internet | Orange is the New Black | politics | society | technology Feitosa-Santana

Netflix: The Big Brother and the Entertainment Manipulation

by Kate Epstein The Snowden leaks and ensuing debates about our government, big data, and privacy have led to more Orwell allusions than I’ve heard in all of my (admittedly post-1984) life. It’s hard not to compare the constant surveillance of twenty-first-century America to the ubiquitous presence of Big Brother in the prescient 1949 novel. […]

21/07/2013 Cinema | edward snowden | entertainment | House of Cards | Orange is the New Black Feitosa-Santana

Netflix: When Entertainment Dulls Us

Netflix and Espionage – The Brave New World of the Database  By Kate Epstein, on Counterpunch “[Richard] Snowden’s leaks and the ensuing debate about our [US] government, database, and privacy led to more allusions to [George] Orwell than I had ever heard in mine (admittedly post-1984 ) life. It’s hard not to compare the constant […]