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Hyper-Truth: The New Regime of Digital Reality
In the digital age, Foucault’s notion of a regime of truth has changed. It was a historically contingent system through which societies produced and regulated what counts as true. This notion has been supplanted by interlocking forms of epistemic, hermeneutic, and semiotic terrorism. These are not mere metaphors of violence but descriptive of how meaning, […]
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Semantic Terrorism: An Integrated Framework for Linguistic and Psychological Warfare
Abstract This paper presents a novel framework for understanding a modern form of conflict, termed “semantic terrorism.” This phenomenon is defined as a “mind control attack” that exploits language to subtly rewrite perceptions. It is a non-physical assault capable of causing severe psychological trauma. It can also lead to societal fragmentation. This paper draws on […]
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AI and Loneliness: Exploring ChatGPT’s Impact
“I confess: I use ChatGPT out of loneliness. But let’s be clear — ChatGPT didn’t cause my loneliness. I am a middle-aged woman, unmarried, without children. I live with mental illness. These realities already put me at the margins of social life. Critics say, ‘ChatGPT is dangerous because lonely people use it.’ I want to respond: look again at the…