Results 1 to 4 of 4

Thread: All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace

  1. #1
    Retired Member
    Join Date
    8th November 2013
    Posts
    1,424
    Thanks
    1,803
    Thanked 7,684 Times in 1,382 Posts

    All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace

    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. It claims that computers have failed to liberate us and instead have distorted and simplified our view of the world around us.

    1. Love and Power. This is the story of the dream that rose up in the 1990s that computers could create a new kind of stable world. They would bring about a new kind global capitalism free of all risk and without the boom and bust of the past. They would also abolish political power and create a new kind of democracy through the Internet where millions of individuals would be connected as nodes in cybernetic systems - without hierarchy.

    2. The Use and Abuse of Vegetational Concepts. This is the story of how our modern scientific idea of nature, the self-regulating ecosystem, is actually a machine fantasy. It has little to do with the real complexity of nature. It is based on cybernetic ideas that were projected on to nature in the 1950s by ambitious scientists. A static machine theory of order that sees humans, and everything else on the planet, as components - cogs - in a system.

    3. The Monkey in the Machine and the Machine in the Monkey. This episode looks at why we humans find this machine vision so beguiling. The film argues it is because all political dreams of changing the world for the better seem to have failed - so we have retreated into machine-fantasies that say we have no control over our actions because they excuse our failure.

    Adam Curtis is a documentary film maker, whose work includes The Power of Nightmares, The Century of the Self, The Mayfair Set, Pandora's Box, The Trap and The Living Dead.


    [ the videos are on VIMEO, I don't know how to embed them here ]

    http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/all-w...-loving-grace/

  2. The Following 7 Users Say Thank You to norman For This Useful Post:

    Altaira (13th February 2014), Cearna (13th February 2014), Mark (13th February 2014), modwiz (13th February 2014), sandy (14th February 2014), Sooz (13th February 2014), Woody (13th February 2014)

  3. #2
    Retired Member Australia
    Join Date
    12th September 2013
    Location
    Near Byron Bay Australia
    Posts
    3,215
    Thanks
    14,019
    Thanked 19,398 Times in 3,150 Posts
    Thanks Norman, I will watch this on the weekend.

    Something else which has caught my eye, is Daniel Estephan (sp?), with his new book.

  4. The Following User Says Thank You to Sooz For This Useful Post:

    Woody (13th February 2014)

  5. #3
    Retired Member Australia
    Join Date
    12th September 2013
    Location
    Near Byron Bay Australia
    Posts
    3,215
    Thanks
    14,019
    Thanked 19,398 Times in 3,150 Posts
    Last edited by Sooz, 13th February 2014 at 08:42.

  6. The Following 3 Users Say Thank You to Sooz For This Useful Post:

    777 (13th February 2014), Altaira (13th February 2014), Woody (13th February 2014)

  7. #4
    Retired Member
    Join Date
    12th September 2013
    Location
    Terra
    Posts
    2,703
    Thanks
    8,458
    Thanked 11,572 Times in 2,477 Posts
    Here you go Sooz (you peeping Tom lol!)



    Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bKv9HISWfE">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bKv9HISWfE




    Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmLphx3dEgo">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmLphx3dEgo

  8. The Following 2 Users Say Thank You to 777 For This Useful Post:

    Sooz (15th February 2014), Woody (13th February 2014)

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •