One of the key scenes in Adam Curtis’s monumental new documentary HyperNormalisation shows a woman engaging with ELIZA. ELIZA was a psychotherapy computer programme developed in 1966 that comforted ...
Hypernormalisation is a term invented by Russian Professor Alexei Yurchak, to describe the fact that, during the final years of the Soviet Union, everyone knew the Soviet system was failing but no one ...
The British government recently gave the green light for Heathrow airport’s third runway. It was heralded by its supporters as a vital boost for jobs and growth – and proof that the UK was “open for ...