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All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace

The latest Adam Curtis documentary is a series of films about how humans have been colonized by the machines they have built. Although we don’t realize it the way we see everything in the world today is through the eyes of the computers. This is the story of the dream that rose up in the [...]

June 1, 2011 Culture 0 Comments

The Century Of The Self

His influence on the 20th century is widely regarded as massive. The documentary describes the impact of Freud’s theories on the perception of the human mind, and the ways public relations agencies and politicians have used this during the last 100 years for their “engineering of consent”. Among the main characters are Freud himself and [...]

April 9, 2010 Psychology 0 Comments

The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom?

Individual freedom is the dream of our age. It’s what our leaders promise to give us, it defines how we think of ourselves and, repeatedly, we have gone to war to impose freedom around the world. But if you step back and look at what freedom actually means for us today, it’s a strange and [...]

April 2, 2010 Politics 0 Comments

Pandora’s Box

“It began with a weapon created by scientists that threatened to destroy the world. But then a group of men who were convinced they control the new danger began to gain influence in America. They would manipulate terror. To do so, they would use the methods of science.” Pandora’s Box is a six part 1992 [...]