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The theme of the January 2008 issue of All The Rage is ‘forbidden knowledge’. Highlights include an interview with Greg Stekelman, better known as themanwhofellasleep, some borrowed opinions from Oliver Holtaway, and typically classy ramblings from Sylvia Bellini. And there’s something from me:

Modern technology, the googleization of the world, has made more knowledge available more easily than ever before, and has led to the concept of ‘forbidden knowledge’ itself becoming devalued. Every conspiracy theorist now has a website, repositories of convoluted nonsense that feed off each other and off the internet itself. Whether it’s 9/11, UFOs, the New World Order or the satanic nature of bar codes, the Truth is but a click away - ‘google it, people!’

‘Forbidden knowledge in the internet age’ can be found on pages 3-4 of the new issue (PDF file) of All The Rage.

Picture: Detail of photograph depicting Eve in the Garden of Eden by Jean Agélou (1878-1921). [Source]

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