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An interview with the documentary filmmaker Adam Curtis

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“It’s ‘fuck off’ to everything,” says Adam Curtis (pictured below), describing public sentiment today. The British documentarist sees himself as an optimist amid dystopians, and as a classical journalist whose medium happens to be film. For 30 years he has produced a rich body of documentaries on politics and society for the BBC—and in the process, has emerged as a cult-hero to young thinkers trying to (...)

CrimethInc. : Insurrection is Not a Game : Play, Resistance, and Designing the Game “Bloc by Bloc”
▻https://crimethinc.com/2018/06/04/insurrection-is-not-a-game-play-resistance-and-designing-the-game-bloc-b

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I have learned more about the history of subversive and anti-authoritarian tabletop games out there in the world. Suffragetto is a game from 1909 that simulates women’s suffrage protestors clashing with police. What we now know as the game Monopoly was originally a game called The Landlord’s Game that critiqued real estate speculation and finance capitalism. Class Struggle, Chicago Chicago, and Mai 68 Le jeu are a few other titles from the 1970s and ’80s that attempted to simulate popular uprisings. A few years ago, some Italian comrades created a game called Riot that features anarchists, autonomists, police, and nationalists fighting each other in the streets.

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For gamers’ perspectives on the themes of colonialism and domination in Settlers of Catan, check out:

Postcolonial Catan

First Nations of Catan

For more on systems thinking in games, check out Rules of Play: Game Design Fundamentals. For more on the critique of cybernetics, watch Adam Curtis’s All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace.

#jeux #anarchisme

Erri De Luca : « Le capitalisme s’est affranchi du souci de l’utilité »
▻https://reporterre.net/Erri-De-Luca-Le-capitalisme-s-est-affranchi-du-souci-de-l-utilite

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Reporterre — La ligne Lyon-Turin (TAV) ou le pont sur le détroit de Messine entre la Sicile et le continent… que pensez-vous de ces grands projets lancés en Italie ?

#Erri_De_Luca — On déplace l’argent public en faveur de grandes entreprises qui sont liées au système des partis. Hors d’Italie, on appellerait cela corruption, mais chez nous, c’est devenu un modèle de développement. En Val de Suse, par exemple, on ferme des hôpitaux, mais on continue à gaspiller des milliards pour un trou inutile. Le pont au-dessus du détroit de Messine ne se fera jamais, mais plus de 300 millions d’euros ont déjà été dépensés, alors que les routes et le réseau de chemin de fer en Sicile sont dans un état déplorable. Le problème est que le citoyen italien est devenu un sujet, comme au Moyen-Âge.

#GPII #capitalisme

The century of the self ("Le siècle du moi")
Documentaire d’Adam Curtis
#psychologie #comportement_irrationnel #inconscient #désirs #pulsions #marketing #consommation #Freud #Edward_Bernays

Il s’agit d’un billet brut de pomme, donnant accès à la présentation du documentaire, à son téléchargement et à la possibilité de le soutitrer en français.

Episodes disponibles sur #archive.org
(alternative : BitTorrent)

▻https://archive.org/search.php?query=century%20of%20the%20self
▻https://archive.org/details/TheCenturyOfTheSelfPart1

Soutitres français

▻http://forums.mvgroup.org/releasedb/getSubtitle.php?name=BBC.The.Century.of.the.Self.1of4.Happiness.Mach
▻http://forums.mvgroup.org/releasedb/getSubtitle.php?name=BBC.The.Century.of.the.Self.2of4.The.Engineerin
▻http://forums.mvgroup.org/releasedb/getSubtitle.php?name=BBC.The.Century.of.the.Self.3of4.Policeman.Insi
▻http://forums.mvgroup.org/releasedb/getSubtitle.php?name=BBC.The.Century.of.the.Self.4of4.Eight.People.S

Transcript

▻http://www.blendedbody.com/_cl/_audio/_2ndgen/CenturyOfSelf/32kbs_Audio_Broadband_mp3/Transcripts%20Century%20of%20Self

Sites
▻http://centuryofself.com
▻http://docuwiki.net/index.php?title=The_Century_of_the_Self

#ressource_société

« Bitter Lake » (2015)
▻https://quartierslibres.wordpress.com/2015/03/29/bitter-lake-2015

Bitter Lake est un documentaire anglais réalisé par Adam Curtis et diffusé début 2015 sur le site de la BBC. Réalisé à partir des archives de la chaîne britannique concernant l’Afghanistan, il constitue un excellent complément au livre d’Olivier Roy, En quête de l’Orient perdu, qui avait fait l’objet d’une présentation par Quartiers Libres. Source : Quartiers libres

Nonlinear Warfare - A New System of Political Control (2014)
▻http://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/nonlinear-warfare-a-new-system-of-political-control-2014

A short film by Adam Curtis screened during Charlie Brooker’s review of 2014 on the BBC; shows the how deliberate undermining of peoples perception of the world, by manipulating the media and...

Adam Curtis - NOW THEN (BBC blogs)
▻http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/posts/NO-FUTURE

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ALADDIN is the name of an incredibly powerful computer network that is based in a tiny town called East Wenatchee - it’s in the middle of nowhere in Washington State in North America.

Aladdin guides the investment of over $11 trillion of assets around the world.

This makes it incredibly powerful. Aladdin is owned by a company called Blackrock that is the biggest investor in the world. It manages as much money as all the hedge-funds and the private equity firms in the world put together. And its computer watches over 7% of all the investments in the world.

(...) its aim is to not change the world - but to keep it stable. Preventing any development thats too risky. And when you are moving $11 trillion around to do that -it is a really important new force.

But it’s boring. And there is no story. Just patterns.

(...) It is the modern world of power - and it’s incredibly boring. Nothing to film, run by a cautious man who is in no way a wolf of Wall Street. It’s how power works today. It hides in plain sight - through sheer boringness and dullness.

No wonder we find it difficult to tell stories about it.

Une promenade dans le monde du #secret, de la #surveillance, de l’analyse booléenne, d’#ELIZA, du #big_data et de la #prédiction, où l’on voit un vieux sujet de Duncan Campbell (le futur découvreur d’Echelon), l’histoire d’Ethel Voynich (fille de George Boole), et bien d’autres merveilles des archives de la BBC.

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et au final ce montage d’Adam Curtis
▻http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p023kq11

SUSPICIOUS MINDS
Adam Curtis

▻http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/posts/SUSPICIOUS-MINDS

Nobody trusts anyone in authority today.

It is one of the main features of our age. Wherever you look there are lying politicians, crooked bankers, corrupt police officers, cheating journalists and double-dealing media barons, sinister children’s entertainers, rotten and greedy energy companies and out-of-control security services.

And what makes the suspicion worse is that practically no-one ever gets prosecuted for the scandals. Certainly nobody at the top.

There has always been Us vs Them in modern Britain - but this pervasive mood of suspicion and distrust is different.

In the past it divided along political lines. The Left was for Us and the conservative Right was firmly for Them. But now the politics have disappeared - because no politicians are trusted. It doesn’t matter whether they are left or right, all politicians are despised. They will never do anything for the ordinary person - only for themselves and their other corrupt friends in power.

In some ways this is disempowering because it means there is no-one who is both powerful and trustworthy enough to challenge the corruption. But it is also a moment of great opportunity - because the present mood of distrust with authority is very powerful and it could be harnessed to create a new populist movement. This is what someone like Russell Brand has sensed - and is trying to do.

I want to go back and look at the roots of this tearing down of politics and of authority in modern Britain. To do this I am going to tell the story of three rather odd men who in their very different ways helped begin it over thirty years ago.

The Emotional Propagandist: A Conversation With #BBC Journalist #Adam_Curtis
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/emotional-propagandist-conversation-bbc-journalist-adam-curtis

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Curtis was invited to #Beirut last week by #Ashkal_Alwan to take part in an exhibition where he presented a lecture on the forgotten role of America’s attempted coups in #syria in the 1950s and 1960s. (Photo: Ashkal Alwan) Curtis was invited to Beirut last week by Ashkal Alwan to take part in an exhibition where he presented a lecture on the forgotten role of America’s attempted coups in Syria in the 1950s and 1960s. (Photo: Ashkal Alwan).

Adam Curtis is a friendly anomaly in the world of journalism. An English journalist who has been working for the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) since the 1980s, he is renowned for his intriguing documentaries that juxtapose differing topics into a unifying narrative. The (...)

#Series_and_Features #Features #Lebanon #Western_media

The baby and the baath water – Adam Curtis
▻http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/posts/the_baby_and_the_baath_water

What is happening in Syria feels like one of the last gasps of the age of the military dictators. An old way of running the world is still desperately trying to cling to power, but the underlying feeling in the west is that somehow Assad’s archaic and cruel military rule will inevitably collapse and Syrians will move forward into a democratic age.

That may, or may not, happen, but what is extraordinary is that we have been here before. Between 1947 and 1949 an odd group of idealists and hard realists in the American government set out to intervene in Syria. Their aim was to liberate the Syrian people from a corrupt autocratic elite - and allow true democracy to flourish. They did this because they were convinced that “the Syrian people are naturally democratic” and that all that was neccessary was to get rid of the elites - and a new world of “peace and progress” would inevitably emerge.

What resulted was a disaster, and the consequences of that disaster then led, through a weird series of bloody twists and turns, to the rise to power of the Assad family and the widescale repression in Syria today.

I thought I would tell that story.

(Je référence pour les rappels historiques. Pour les remarques sur le baas de Michel Aflaq, je te laisse te faire ta propre idée.)

Adam Curtis - All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace

1/3 Love and Power
►http://vimeo.com/29865018

2/3 The Use and Abuse of Vegetational Concepts
►http://vimeo.com/29875053

3/3 - The Monkey in the Machine and the Machine in the Monkey
►http://vimeo.com/30107451

#film #cybernétique via @patrice_riemens

Adam Curtis Blog: If you take my advice - I’d repress them
►http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/2012/05/if_you_take_my_advice_-_id_rep.html

Bahrain, along with Syria, has become a symbol of the failure of the Arab Spring to deliver real democracy and freedom across the Arab world. The media in Britain portray a rigid, oppressive almost feudal elite who are stubbornly holding out against the inevitable wave of modern freedoms and political justice.

But what is hardly ever mentioned in the press and TV reports is that this very system of oppression, the rock against which the dreams of democracy are being dashed, was largely created by the British. That, throughout most of the twentieth century, British advisers to the Bahraini royal family, backed up by British military might, were central figures in the creation of a ruthless system that imprisoned and sometimes tortured any Bahraini citizen who even dared to suggest the idea of democracy.

The same British advisers also worked with the rulers of Bahrain to exercise a cynical technique of divide and rule - setting Shia against Sunni in a very successful attempt to keep Bahrain locked in an old, decaying and corrupt system of tribal and religious rivalries. The deliberate aim was to stop democracy ever emerging.

The Bahrainis know this, practically everyone else in the Arab world knows this - the only people who seem to have forgotten are the British themselves.

So I thought I would tell the story of Britain’s involvement in the government and the security of Bahrain over the past 90 years. Especially as the present King of Bahrain is coming to have lunch with the Queen on May 18th.