Huxley’s 1954 essay The Doors Of Perception is as well-known – and as frequently referenced by pop culturists – as Brave New World, and details his experience of a mescaline trip and subsequent ...

Reading Aldous Huxley’s masterwork about an infantilized, drug-dependent, consumer society in the summer of 2012 delivers a shiver of recognition. Brave New World: Aldous Huxley’s predictions ...

Huxley’s Los Angeles. Huxley moved to Los Angeles in 1937, five years after publishing “Brave New World.” He worked as a screenwriter, studied Vedanta Hinduism (with fellow British expat ...

By looking back at "Brave New World," we can see how critical the banning of mind-altering drugs is to keeping a society free. Smoking weed is often associated with rebellion and counterculture.

In Brave New World, thanks to mood-altering drugs, the distractions of mass media technology, and ready access to sexual gratification, most people don't even realise that they have no freedom.

Brave New World features the fictional drug Soma, described in the novel as the perfect escapist drug. Huxley’s Soma functions as a foremost agent for social engineering, ...

On Wednesday, Peacock premieres an adaptation of Aldous Huxley’s 1932 science fiction novel. The world the book anticipated — designer drugs, casual sex, near-instant gratification — is ...

Aldous Huxley - Brave New World It’s 60 years since the death of writer and philosopher Aldous Huxley [d.22.11.1963]. Jonathan Holloway dramatises Huxley’s uneasy reflections of the future.

“Brave New World,” a TV adaptation of the Aldous Huxley novel, takes place in a fictional universe in which pleasure and indolence are the paramount virtues; individuals in the upper echelon ...