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All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace

submitted by DerHasisttot

1 decade 2 years 11 months 2 weeks ago

A new documentary series by Adam Curtis, known by many from Charlie Brooker's Newswipe

Guardian: The new series, called All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace, takes complicated ideas and turns them into entertainment by the use of the vertigo-inducing intellectual leaps, choppy archive material and disorienting music with which all Curtis fans are familiar. The central idea leads Curtis on a journey, taking in the chilling über-individualist novelist Ayn Rand, former chairman of the Federal Reserve Alan Greenspan, the "new economy", hippy communes, Silicon Valley, ecology, Richard Dawkins, the wars in Congo, the lonely suicide in a London squat of the mathematical genius who invented the selfish gene theory, and the computer model of the eating habits of the pronghorn antelope.

Read here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2011/may/06/adam-curtis-computers-documentary?CMP=twt_gu

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Moving this video to DerHasisttot's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 2 days.

*promote

Self promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued - promote requested by original submitter DerHasisttot.

Adam Curtis is brilliant.

dag

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This looks awesome. I will watch it.

Is the show gonna be as cool as the trailer? Can I move to England?

Creepy. Weird to think this was made by the BBC.

What pulled me in (and what usually does as a former psychedelics connoisseur) was the music.

That being said, the songs are
1) Roy Orbison - In Dreams (if you don't know that one, get out of my house)
2) NIN - Right Where it Belongs v1
3) Burial - Forgive
4) Stereo Total - Aua

The thumbnail image for this video has been updated - thumbnail added by critical_d.

ahem.

For while it's still available on youtube, I've playlisted the entire documentary and submitted it to VS.

>> ^rottenseed:

Is the show gonna be as cool as the trailer? Can I move to England?

You won't have to...

For as long as it's still on youtube, I've playlisted Adam Curtis' latest documentary, "All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace," and submitted it to VS:

http://videosift.com/video/Adam-Curtis-All-Watched-over-by-Machines-of-Loving-Grace

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