Omniscience

"A phenomenal critical success when first produced by Western Theatre Conspiracy in 2004, Omniscience is much more than a murder mystery set in a quasi-familiar contemporary landscape of high-tech urban warfare. The plot is redolent with untrustworthy "embedded" journalists manufacturing positivist pseudo-documentaries about the ongoing victories of our military forces over any and all stripes of vaguely defined terrorists hell-bent on destroying the "wellness" of our contemporary "free society." We recognize immediately the storyline's seamless meld with everyone's favourite post-9/11 reality TV show, the Evening News. On reflection, however, that recognition is strangely discomforting if not downright threatening." "Omniscience subtly and relentlessly begs the question of how many of our freedoms we have already lost to the institutions engaged in our surveillance "for our own protection" and the uses they make of the power over our lives we have voluntarily abrogated to them through our support of such phenomena as The Patriot Act, anti-terrorism legislation and Operation Enduring Freedom. Ubiquitous surveillance has become a fact of our everyday lives not only in our public acts, but also in our private spaces where increasingly every conversation we have is monitored for the purposes of corporate and careerist "quality control." Tim Carlson's perfectly accomplished "dialoguing" of the corporatist, military-industrial Newspeak of our age epitomizes the disturbing process of social reconfiguration explored in this compelling drama."--BOOK JACKET.Carlson, Tim is the author of 'Omniscience ', published 2007 under ISBN 9780889225626 and ISBN 0889225621.