Doomscroll with Joshua Citarella Doomscroll 05: Trevor Paglen
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Nov 13, 2024 Trevor Paglen, artist and geographer who maps surveillance and hidden power, joins to trace psyops capitalism, MKUltra's mind‑control experiments, and how magicians shaped covert perception work. Short, sharp takes on UFO disinformation, AI as cultural mirror, and how manipulation becomes an economic system.
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Mind As Programmable Machine
- MKUltra framed the mind as a programmable computer that could be written to and erased.
- That computational view led to experiments in drugs, hypnosis, and early brain-computer research.
CIA's On-Staff Magician
- John Mulholland, a renowned magician, worked covertly for the CIA using magic techniques for operations.
- He designed disguised weapons and investigated UFO and parapsychology claims for intelligence purposes.
Air Force Disinformation Against UFO Hunters
- Trevor Paglen's film centers on Richard Doty, who ran disinformation operations targeting UFO communities.
- Doty fed forged government documents to UFO researchers and later blurred truth and lies about real programs.
