Rafal Milach's ongoing artistic practice focuses on applied sociotechnical systems of governmental control and
ideological manipulations of belief and consciousness.
Meanwhile, the layperson seems as vulnerable as ever to religious demagoguery, to
the ideological manipulation of religion, to fundamentalistic «proofs» of this and that, to absolutistic ethics.
Responding to reports that the Secretary of State for Education is planning to introduce an «Advanced Baccalaureate» as part of reforms to A-levels, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, said: «This is another example of Michael Gove's
ideological manipulation of the school curriculum.
While this view somewhat echoes eastern thought — which he was familiar with from Hindu, Buddhist, Tao, and Zen scripts but also his travels to Asia and the Middle East — it also stands by some Marxist theories, especially those of Theodor Adorno, who witnessed the dangers of
the ideological manipulation of art from the 1930s through the cold war.
Not exact matches
This sort
of ideological manipulation took everyday forms.
But clearly the prime example
of conscious
manipulation is modern Japanese civil religion, composed
of the modern emperor system and its pervasive
ideological influence,
of which state Shintõ was only a part.
Abstract: The purpose
of this article is to propose the development
of a didactic model
of sustainable society, substantially different from the current paradigm characterized both by the exponential growth
of economic and population indicators that lead to the destruction
of the environment, and the
ideological manipulation by political and religious sectors favoring the dominance
of some people over others and confrontation between humans.
Novoa intends to synthesize in a unique form the diverse subliminal resources
of manipulation by
ideological, religious, political, or financial systems, which define the appearance
of cities, creating a discourse as landscapes.
[4] It proposes a close look into the openness and potential
of the Internet world as well as its susceptibility to power and political
manipulation and
ideological controls.
This approach WILL shut down the anti-science blogs, the special interest groups and the
ideological cabals that fund and support this «business model»
of deceit and
manipulation of the general public.
On what basis are scientists permitted such
manipulation of publicly funded research so as to make it acceptable by theirs and others standards and beliefs and to drag the research into what is a politically correct and acceptable form to conform to some ill defined
ideological belief that a group
of their peers might believe in.?
Whether or not one believes that it is (or was) clear that there had been «extensive
manipulation of scientific data» (my views, contrast with UKIP's and are here) the view is not itself «
ideological».
«The term Lysenkoism can also be used metaphorically to describe the
manipulation or distortion
of the scientific process as a way to reach a predetermined conclusion as dictated by an
ideological bias, often related to social or political objectives».
When I see accusations
of NASA data
manipulation coupled with refusal to honor FOIA requests and highly
ideological, crude public statements like the above
of key officials, then it looks like a pattern
of unscientific behavior to me.