User:Joshuakinman/sandbox/Virtual Imperialism

Joshua Kinman 05:13, 21 June 2018 (UTC)== Virtual Imperialism ==

Virtual Imperialism

Virtual Imperialism is a form of literary cultural theory in literary criticism. It was first used in 2008 by Joshua Kinman, of Cincinnati Ohio, while working on a graduate degree in cultural theory and English critical theory. He successfully defended his these in May 2012 at Northern Kentucky University. .

Virtual Imperialism is inspired and related to post-colonialism and colonial literary study of authors such as Edward Said, Slavjo Ziḗk, and Michel Foucault. It is an advancement of post-colonial theory that redefines the resource and target of virtual colonial powers such as major media c, as well as Joseph Conrad and H.G. Wells. It also incorporated elements of popular science fiction. Virtual imperialists may include corporations, mass media, and governments.

Simply, rather than land or material resources acquisition, human bio power is harvested to create a source of bio power to subjugate the population by augmenting the reality of the user based on online virtual interactions. For example, an individual will have only one perception of his or her reality based on data mining. In virtual imperialism studies data mining is referred to as data minding as the data collected from the user shapes the world view of the user controlling the perception and creating a bio power resource for the benefit of the colonizer in a virtual space.

​Virtual Imperialism is generally defined as –


 * colonization of the mind, create bio power through data mining of user interface actions in the “Virtual Real"
 * ”targets specific groups with the intention to shape the target’s perception reality to conform with the colonizers ends (usually for political gains or creating a culture of consumerism or unrest
 * uses a virtual space where the target is colonized, free will influenced leading to complete and willful surrender of free will to the  colonizers narrative
 * users are unaware of the social engineering, creates belief in fake news
 * cognitive data mining (minding, controlled “zombification”
 * subjugation of the biological organism (humans) to control the mind by presenting the human a desired perception of the virtual real
 * cognitive data mining used to shape the user’s virtual experience (propaganda, passive censorship, and self-imposed world view)