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"The human being who identifies him/herself with the objectively existing world comes to construct a personality, a sense of self, that is, at base, fully dependent upon the ever-changing structures of temporal existence. The resulting lack of any sense of permanance, of autonomy, leads such an individual to experience anxieties of all kinds, and eventually to shun the mysterious and collectively meaningful patterns of human existence in favour of a private and stifling subjective context, in the confines of which life plays itself out in the absence of any greater plan or scheme."

- Internet Encyclopaedia of Philosophy

 

Image: Anatomical Flipbook (1885), L.W. Yaggy & James J. West

#VirulentExperience

 

"I’m wonderin’ if a thug’s prayers reach
Is Pious pious cause God loves pious?
Socrates asks, “Whose bias do y’all seek?”
All for Plato, screech
I’m out here ballin’, I know ya’ll hear my sneaks"

From The Ministry #12:Know The Signs

 

FOR YOUR PROTECTION. YOUR SAFETY, SECURITY & SANITY IS IN OUR HANDS #ministryofinformation

A PSA: For Your Health

Citizens - A gift from the Ministry Of Information.

Download and print off this leaflet so that you are never caught unawares by Virulent Novelty!

VIRULENT NOVELTY is a major threat to the safety & security of our country. It is responsible for moral & ethical decay, an increase in alienation, suicide rates & deviant sexual behaviour.

Recent research from Government Scientists at the Ministry indicates that outbreaks of VIRULENT NOVELTY can be directly correlated to an upsurge in degenerate behaviour. Medical studies report increased stress levels, insomnia and depression. VIRULENT NOVELTY is spread through unregulated informational contact.

This is what scientific experts call VIRULENT EXPERIENCE.

“VIRULENT EXPERENCE is information & experience which induces the sufferer to relentlessly pursue meaningless novelty. Sufferers often become obsessive and detached from reality, as well as increasingly isolated & reckless in their pursuit of dangerous emotional stimuli. They just can’t get no satisfaction”

SUSPECT SYMPTOMS:
- Obsessive compulsive monitoring of emotional identities via meaningless social connections
- rapid-cycle stimuli
- overeating
- Boredom, listlessness and generalised nausea.
- Rampant sexual appetite
- Decreased empathy & chronic dissatisfaction -
- Near-pathological desire for external validation (existentially)
- Increased stress; tendency towards depression
- Need to stand out, extreme fashion choices and adaptation of flesh with scarifactions and or piercings.
- Drug Use
- Scruffy clothing, unkempt appearance.
- Slurring of speech overuse of slang or colloquialisms
- Emotions associated with feeling unloved or broken hearted.
- Uncontrollable crying fits.

BE VIGILANT> STAY SAFE>REPORT & BE REWARDED

PREVENTION:
The filthy degenerate whose unrestricted emotions once threatened to tear apart the fabric of society are no longer permitted to pollute the experiences we share. The administration provided by the Ministry of Information has ensured that the most Virulent poisonous forms of information and experience are banned and restricted by the Index. Only interact with Ministry Of Information feeds, or those feeds run by Ministry Approved Experience Vendors. If in doubt, consult Sure Heart guidelines and await communion with Blake.

BLAKE will analyse any potential risk and extract and sanitise the area of your mind infested with virulent information for your Safety, Security & Sanity. We trust you to report any sites of VIRULENT EXPERIENCE immediately. BLAKE will then flag the issue and despatch Ministry investigators to the scene as soon as possible.

Many thanks, BLAKE!

Do not exceed your Sure Heart Bandwidth, any attempt to bypass Sure Heart program code will cause a medically induced coma for your protection. Your bandwidth plan is specifically tailored for your individual needs. Do not share unregulated Experience – cross contamination may occur. Always remain within your personal informational environment. Regularly consult BLAKE for the very latest updates and patches.
Remember – BLAKE is everywhere, for your safety and convenience. Access BLAKE directly, any time you feel unsure.

Reality will never again be diffused with worthless useless information presented as addictive Novelty. In filtering and purifying our minds of poisonous self destructive intent England has achieved what was once thought impossible.

 

 

 

A Sure Heart Testimonal

Jackie Blackburn, 33, Tooting.

“My twin boys Mason and Jason are three and showed early signs of behavioural difficulties. As a single mum I’d have found caring for them and the loneliness of bringing up kids on my own really tough if it hadn’t been for Sure Heart. I used to drink a lot but thanks to the support of Sure Heart I’ve now got a much more self esteem and I know my sons are safe in their hands while I sort myself out. Through the programme I even get help with the drinking too and I got some work experience at the local supermarket. It’s not paid but its a start. Sometimes we spend all day at the Sure Heart centre and they learn about all sorts of stuff that will make them ready for when they go to school but also more moral stuff that I probably couldn’t teach them, about being good citizens. They do all that while I go to my parenting classes with the other mums. I guess the thing is that being a parent is difficult because there isn’t a guidebook but with Sure Heart it really takes the the pressure off, like they do the worrying for you and you don’t have to think so much anymore about if you’re doing the right thing or not. I’m glad Mason and Jason are Sure Heart kids. They’ve got much more discipline now and they fit in with all the other kids and at the end of the day that’s what’s really important, isn’t it?”

 

Sure Heart for the right start.

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#VirulentExperience

Feeling IS NOT Fatal. Pain IS NOT punishment #virulentexperience

 

From The Ministry #11

Listless, bored and unnaccountably discomfited? You could be suffering from Novelty Comedown. Check with your physician immediately! #ministryofinformation

 

From the Ministry #10

Do you know where YOUR children are tonight? #ministryofinformation

 

#VirulentExperience

"Give me convenience or give me death". #virulentexperience

 

From The Ministry #9

Keep Your Feeds Clean At All Times – Unclean, Unworthy. #ministryofinformation

 

From The Ministry #8

Solitude is your liberation, not your prison. #ministryofinformation

 

From the Ministry #7

Sanity and Security make Sense. #ministryofinformation

 

From the Ministry #6

NO to novelty, YES to our future. #ministryofinformation

 

 

From The Ministry #5

Sure Heart for the right start. #ministryofinformation

 

David Cameron denies parenting classes 'nanny state

Defending the policy, David Cameron said: "I think this whole debate about nanny state is nonsense.

"Parents want help. It is in our interest as a society to help people bring up their children.

"We're taught to drive a car. We're taught all sorts of things at school. I think it makes perfect sense to help people with parenting."

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When did you last disconnect? #virulentexperience

 

Richard Webb - Core Creative Team / Website Designer - Strange Factories

Richard Webb lives and works in London, having completed his degree in Media Arts at Sheffield Hallam University in 2007, followed by an MA in Fine Art at the University of Brighton. Over the past three years Webb has exhibited in London galleries such as The Whitechapel Art Gallery, The Agency Gallery and NO:ID as well as in more diverse spaces such as a semi-abandoned shopping centre and disused multi-storey car park on the South Coast, Benjamin Franklin House in London, a converted shipping wharf in Amsterdam and London's Old Abattoir. Webb has also completed a period as Assistant Curator at De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill.

 

rawebb.com

Diary Extract III: Sugar & The City

Shot by shot, the footage became increasingly surreal as both life and film slipped off the page and into delirium.

Diary Extract III. Czech Republic, October 2011.

Recorded by Anon.

After what feels like a lifetime of filming in the remote depths of the Czech countryside, the final week of the Strange Factories has seen the cast and crew uprooted and relocated to the city in order to capture the final shots of the film.

We are now in Prague and after so much time in this beautiful country, the non-Czech faction of the team feel more like residents than tourists. The pace is more leisurely now that we are both ahead of schedule and no longer have the immense task of organising a comparatively large unit of people and an intensive schedule of location-hopping. Yet this relative ease is punctuated by our complete and utter exhaustion. We have grown so close to one another that we sit in silence contemplating our beers and occasionally muttering to eachother in half sentences. We move from cafe to cafe, planning our next shots and eating honey cake, drinking hot ginger. We're all sugar addicts now. In desperate times where else to turn to for energy? I've even started pouring sugar into my coffee, stirring and pouring in more, with great concentration as if this packet of sugar, or this one, or this one, might contain my saviour, might bring me back to earth, might actually translate into fresh energy or rejuvenation.

We become regulars at the Goblin Bar, supping hot wine and playing endless rounds of cards, telling each other our dirtiest secrets and laughing as much as our weary bodies will allow. We wander the streets and duck into internet cafes to check our emails, informing loved ones of our impending return to society, the possibility of a future that doesn't take place here, filming in the Czech Republic. I have no idea if I'm going home or leaving the nest.

I have no idea what exists outside of this.

 

From the Ministry #4

The Ministry of Information: Monitoring, Measuring & Mediating for YOU. #ministryofinformation

 

#VirulentExperience

LOL. #virulentexperience

From the Ministry #3

The INDEX – safeguarding you from Virulent Novelty since 2032 #ministryofinformation