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Ayn Rand, philosophe ultralibérale pour bourge asocial
http://ragemag.fr/ayn-rand-philosophe-ultraliberale-pour-bourge-asocial

La pensée d’Ayn Rand est complexe, brandissent souvent ses adorateurs. Il serait plus juste de la qualifier de grotesque et caricaturale. Son œuvre est une sorte de potée indigeste de toutes les sordidités macérées dans les intestins malades de l’Occident individualiste. Toutes les salades du libéralisme le plus carnassier, le plus débridé, s’y retrouvent. Le mérite de la camarade Ayn Rand aura été de lustrer à l’aide de son cerveau encore dégoulinant de liquide céphalo-rachidien les sales bottines cloutées des penchants les plus terribles de l’homme, et d’en faire ensuite une industrie florissante au pays des industriels rois. Avec elle, le vice devient vertu ; il devient une philosophie : l’objectivisme.

A propos de #comportementalisme (pas encore vu) :
“The Century of The Self”, #documentaire (en anglais) d’Adam Curtis pour la BBC (2002 - Seenthis n’existait pas encore, rendez-vous compte)

“The Century of the Self” tells the untold and sometimes controversial story of the growth of the mass-consumer society in Britain and the United States. How was the all-consuming self created, by whom, and in whose interests?

http://vimeo.com/20861423

Episode One: Happiness Machines / Episode Two: The Engineering of Consent / Episode Three: There is a Policeman Inside All Our Heads: He Must Be Destroyed / Episode Four: Eight People Sipping Wine in Kettering

#Freud #consumérisme #consommation_de_masse #Bernays #propagande

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.

Bienvenue dans le désert du réel, où croît aussi ce qui sauve.

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Présentation : Rendre lisible certains espaces du réel en leur pauvreté brutale. Et repérer ce qui échappe à cette pauvreté, et qui fait signe vers la joie.

Pas mal de documentaires anti-tech & autres, à chaque fois accompagné d’un petit commentaire inédit.

#media_video

Occupy your heart chakra | The History of Emotions Blog
http://emotionsblog.history.qmul.ac.uk/?p=507

I saw an interesting debate at the ‘general assembly’ of Occupy London this week, which I visited as a blogger / sympathizer / voyeur . The protestors were debating a motion on whether to grant the Tranquility Centre (a group of people charged with maintaining the well-being of the camp) executive powers to eject anyone from the camp who threatened the physical or mental well-being of any other member of the community.

It was a delicate issue. The activists who set up the camp are anarchists. They want to create ‘a society free from authoritarianism’, as a pamphlet put it at the Climate Camp in 2009, which was set up by the same activists. The camp is the message. They’re not just protesting against authoritarian industrial capitalism: they’re living and showing the alternative. In this sense, they’re descendants of Diogenes the Cynic (pictured right) the 4th century BC Greek philosopher who tried to ‘deface the currency’ of capitalism, and who lived in a barrel in the centre of the Athenian marketplace, to display how liberating such a lifestyle was. The philosopher Epictetus said of the Cynic lifestyle: “Look at me, I have no house or city, property or slave: I sleep on the ground, I have no wife or children, no miserable palace, but only earth and sky and one poor cloak. Yet what do I lack? Am I not free of pain and fear?’”

#occupylondon impressions