Moral Hygiene is truly an album for its time. Since the 1980s, American industrial metal trailblazers Ministry and their iconic frontman Al Jourgensen have been hitting at the jugular vein of social and political issues.
Moral Hygiene is no exception. Crafted during the lockdowns of the COVID-19 pandemic, Jourgensen has pulled no punches and unleashed an unapologetically critical and insightful album that attacks a range of contemporary issues, including racial injustice, fake news, the climate crisis, and of course, the pandemic. While Moral Hygiene is Ministry’s fifteenth album, it is fresh, relevant, and stacked with incisive socio-political commentary from one of extreme music’s veterans of discontented rage.
Somewhere in the last couple of decades, Al Jourgensen decided that the pulverising machine-metal he pioneered with 1992’s Psalm 69 was it, the Ministry sound, for ever and ever.
A Clockwork Orange is a dystopian satirical black comedy novel by English writer Anthony Burgess, published in 1962. It is set in a near-future society that has a youth subculture of extreme violence. The teenage protagonist, Alex, narrates his violent exploits and his experiences with state authorities intent on reforming him. The book is partially written in a Russian-influenced argot called "Nadsat", which takes its name from the Russian suffix that is equivalent to '-teen' in English. According to Burgess, it was a jeu d'esprit written in just three weeks.
In 2005, A Clockwork Orange was included on Time magazine's list of the 100 best English-language novels written since 1923, and it was named by Modern Library and its readers as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. The original manuscript of the book has been kept at McMaster University's William Ready Division of Archives and Research Collections in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada since the institution purchased the documents in 1971.[6] It is considered one of the most influential dystopian books.
Adaptations:
A 1965 film by Andy Warhol entitled Vinyl was an adaptation of Burgess's novel.
The best known adaptation of the novella to other forms is the 1971 film
A Clockwork Orange by Stanley Kubrick,
Awards:
1983 – Prometheus Award (Preliminary Nominee)
1999 – Prometheus Award (Nomination)
2002 – Prometheus Award (Nomination)
2003 – Prometheus Award (Nomination)
2006 – Prometheus Award (Nomination)[35]
2008 – Prometheus Award (Hall of Fame Award)
A Clockwork Orange was chosen by Time magazine as one of the 100 best English-language books from 1923 to 2005.[36]
AuthorAnthony Burgess
Cover artistBarry Trengove
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
GenreScience fiction, dystopian fiction, satire, black comedy
Published1962 (William Heinemann, UK)
Media typePrint (hardback & paperback) & audio book (cassette, CD)
A Clockwork Orange is a 1971 science fiction crime film adapted, produced, and directed by Stanley Kubrick, based on Anthony Burgess's 1962 novel of the same name. It employs disturbing, violent images to comment on psychiatry, juvenile delinquency, youth gangs, and other social, political, and economic subjects in a near-future Britain.
Alex (Malcolm McDowell), the central character, is a charismatic, antisocial delinquent whose interests include classical music (especially Beethoven), committing rape, theft and what is termed "ultra-violence". He leads a small gang of thugs, Pete (Michael Tarn), Georgie (James Marcus), and Dim (Warren Clarke), whom he calls his droogs (from the Russian word друг, "friend", "buddy"). The film chronicles the horrific crime spree of his gang, his capture, and attempted rehabilitation via an experimental psychological conditioning technique (the "Ludovico Technique") promoted by the Minister of the Interior (Anthony Sharp). Alex narrates most of the film in Nadsat, a fractured adolescent slang composed of Slavic (especially Russian), English, and Cockney rhyming slang.
The film premiered in New York City on 19 December 1971 and was released in the United Kingdom on 13 January 1972. The film was met with polarised reviews from critics and was controversial due to its depictions of graphic violence. After it was cited as having inspired copycat acts of violent, the film was later withdrawn from British cinemas at Kubrick's behest, and it was also banned in several other countries. In the years following, the film underwent a critical re-evaluation and gained a cult following. It received several awards and nominations, including four nominations at the 44th Academy Awards.
In 2020, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
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