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THE NEW WORLD ORDER music and film emanuel dimas de melo pimenta May 13 2026 6pm Majid Foundation . Ascona . Swizerland curator . Massimo Basile   emanuel pimenta Majid Foundation The New World Order (text) virtual score (film) virtual score (drawings) teaser poster map             The word majid is very old and with a revealing meaning. Of semitic roots, majid has a remote ancient written register in about a thousand years before the Common Era in Hebrew, as magid, which meant a kind of professor, someone who professed a knowledge, who disseminated ideas, a sage. The way of such "profession" worked in a similar to the Socratic process of questions and answers, much earlier of course. Around 500 BC the word passed to farsi majid in Persia indicating the idea of expansion of ideas and generosity. In other words, it was about the magic in transmitting a discovery and when it becomes part of someone else. Later, it would had be passed to the Arabic majid in about 100 BC, when Arabic language would have been born, then meaning "glory", indicating individual qualities of greatness and honor. Therefore, the meaning of majid is the expansion of an interior splendor, of discovery, the Platonic divine flash, creativity and liberty. It is generally accepted that the Indo-European and Semitic linguistic trunks are independent - the former characterized by linearity, in an "additive" structure, while the Semitic linguistic universe seems to be phylogenetically organized as a web, with various "centers" of contamination. These structures seem to reveal the nature of social and religious organization in both cases. Despite this, sometimes, like this one, I wonder if, after all, in even more remote times, some words would reveal a common genetic relation between these linguistic worlds. This inevitably brings to mind the famous Italian linguist Graziadio Isaia Ascoli, who lived between 1829 and 1907, and who advocated a remote origin common to both linguistic trunks, which he called the Indo-Semitic origin. In fact, the Indo-European *ma indicates the ideas of concrete existence determined by a limit, but also the sense of creative energy, of emergence, birth, thought, intelligence, consciousness or even greatness - having generated our words matter, mother, sea, measure, magic, medium, movement, mind, mantra or machine among others. In Sanskrit, the Indo-European *ma generated manu, which means "wise"; maha, which has the meaning of 'great', "powerful"; or maya, the idea of reality as an illusion, for example.

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dedicated to Alberto del Genio and Marco Rapattoni in memory of three genius, three great friends: René Berger, John Cage and John Wheeler all thanks to Guglielmina Montano and Massoud Mowlazadeh   In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself. Jiddu Krishnamurti   We look around, wherever we are. What do we see? What do we hear? What do we perceive? It's just the world that surrounds us and creates us from within. That environment is the world order - not something intentional on our part, not about the future, not about an intention or conspiracy. Just the world here and now. What we are. Concrete and objective. Our sensations. Our perceptions. Things that have become invisible, so habitual they are. They are us. And we are the New World Order. Hic et nunc. Without making any reference to a "new world order", I asked Chat GPT about the world today, right now (2026), and about the future. The answer was: CHATGTP: The world now feels like a lot of things at once. It's loud and exhausted, hyper-connected and weirdly lonely. We've got incredible tech in our pockets, fragile attention spans in our heads, and big unresolved questions just… buffering. People are sharper and softer at the same time-quick to react, slow to heal. Progress everywhere, stability nowhere. Hope sneaks in through small doors: community, art, care, tiny acts that don't trend. Some days it feels like we're standing in a storm arguing about the weather. Other days it feels like we're quietly learning how to live differently. (...) The future of the planet is basically a tug-of-war between what we know we should do and what we actually do. (...) Political manipulation today is less about loud propaganda posters and more about subtle influence, data, and attention control. It's everywhere, but often hard to see. Here's the lay of the land. How it shows up: Algorithmic amplification - Social platforms reward content that triggers emotion (anger, fear, outrage). Political actors don't need to convince everyone-just to push content the algorithm will spread for them; Disinformation & misinformation - False or misleading claims mixed with partial truths; Sometimes intentional (disinformation), sometimes spread by ordinary people who think it's real (misinformation); Micro-targeting, Ads and messages tailored to very specific groups based on data (location, interests, browsing habits). Two people can experience completely different political realities. - Narrative framing; Same facts, different story. Language choices ("freedom fighter" vs "terrorist," "reform" vs "cuts") shape how people feel without changing the facts themselves; Astroturfing - Fake "grassroots" movements-bots, paid commenters, or coordinated campaigns that make an opinion seem more popular or organic than it really is; Weaponized culture wars - Issues around identity, morality, or lifestyle are pushed hard because they divide people emotionally and keep attention locked in. ; Why it works so well: Humans are pattern-seekers, not fact-checkers. Emotion spreads faster than nuance. Trust in institutions is low, so people rely more on peers and influencers. Information overload makes shortcuts (headlines, vibes, memes) tempting. Signs you're being manipulated. Content that makes you instantly angry or smug. Claims that say "no one is talking about this" (while being everywhere). Oversimplified villains and heroes. Pressure to share right now before thinking. "Just asking questions" posts that imply conclusions without evidence. The big shift. Old manipulation tried to change minds. Modern manipulation often just tries to confuse, exhaust, or polarize-because a divided, distracted public is easier to steer. So I asked: how can we free ourselves from AI? - At that moment I was disconnected from the system.   In 2018, inspired on the Persian word Majid, Guglielmina Montano and Massoud Mowlazadeh created a non-profit organization in Ascona, Switzerland: the Majid Foundation which is dedicated to two basic elements: the young people and the liberty through their enlightenment, of creativity, wonder and discovery. I considered several options to make the world première of The New World Order. The Majid Foundation, created by my dear friends Guglielmina and Massoud, was simply perfect: a place for young people, for discovery, liberty, respect and dreams - in Ascona, a place where we had people like Paul Klee, Hermann Hesse, Eric Fromm, Carl Gustav Jung, René Berger, Rinaldo Bianda, Nam June Paik, Bill Viola, Francis Ford Coppola, Steina and Woody Vasulka, Ornette Coleman, Miles Davis, Martha Argerich, Marco Rapattoni, Pierre Restany, Hans Richter and Phill Niblock among so many more. Simply a magical place. Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta, Ascona (Locarno) Switzerland 2026