it is dochs oars, sûnt 2001

All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace

Vele malen heb ik hier mijn bewondering uitgesproken voor het werk van de Britse documentairemaker Adam Curtis. En het is niet daarom dat ik nu denk, misschien moest dat toch eens wat minder. Maar zijn laatste serie voor de BBC, All ...

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De geschiedenis van het ik

Lang geleden, toen ik bedacht waar ik nu graag over schrijven zou, diende zich meteen al éen duidelijk onderwerp aan. Als er dan toch zo veel tijd geïnvesteerd moest worden in het schrijven van een boek, dan liefst wel over ...

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Help, ik moet met de media omgaan | intermezzo

Precies nu mijn reeksje over de eigenschappen van de nieuwsmedia loopt, zendt BBC 4 Newswipe uit. Waarin Charlie Brooker het nieuws van de afgelopen week ontleedt. En er ook altijd wel éen tijdloos item in zit. [youtube Kggld0A3ssM] Deze week een film ...

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Instead, they turned to us

Adam Curtis, who was often mentioned here before, did a quickie on why TV journalism is failing. [youtube O9FaIyc4vpU]

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Kijktip

Adam Curtis' nieuwe documentaireserie heet: 'The Trap. What Happened to Our Dreams of Freedom', en wordt op zondagavond uitgezonden op BBC 2, om 22.00 uur. Een voorbeschouwing in The Guardian meldt: the paranoid theories hatched during the cold war would come ...

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Kijktip 2 | The Trap

[swfobj src="http://eamelje.net/flvplayer.swf?file=http://eamelje.net/mm/clip_thetrap.flv&autoStart=false" height="260" width="320" loop="false" start="false" menu="true" salign="t" wmode="transparent" /] click image to play. 1.31 minutes Het is ruim anderhalve week na de laatste uitzending op BBC2. Heeft het zin om nu nog iets van mijn gedachten over Adam Curtis' documentairereeks ...

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Nothing to Fear but Fear Itself

BBC 2 is going to air Adam Curtis' three part documentary The Power of Nightmares from Wednesday the 20th on. Curtis claims in it that the perceived threat of global terrorism is a politically driven fantasy and al-Qaida an ...

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Nothing to Fear but Fear Itself iii

The Brits of MediaLens evaluate Adam Curtis' documentary series The Power of Nightmares, and are amazed the press likes this broadcast so much. Because, as they predictably express, Curtis failed to mention the corporate interest in keeping the public ...

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Nothing to Fear but Fear Itself iv

Adam Curtis responds to the review of MediaLens on his documentary The Power of Nightmares. You want me to have made a different series - about the underlying role of business. That would be a completely different programme - a ...

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Nothing to Fear but Fear Itself v

Adam Curtis' excellent documentary The Power of Nightmares is freely available in a high quality download at the Internet Archive. I see it as an excellent essay on the power of spin and the abuse of the news media, not so ...

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Quote of the Day | 0129

It's part of a much bigger problem. I'm not just talking about news, but about all factual reporting on television. The way they tell stories about the world feels increasingly thin – and more and more detached from the way ...

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Quote of the Day | 0202

The film records an experiment in a mental hospital in San Bernadino - California. The patients are given rewards in the form of plastic fake money if they do what the doctors consider the right social behaviour. They can then ...

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Quote of the Day | 0215

just as in the early 1980s, in the Soviet Union, not only was their politics trapped, but their culture was trapped. Russians called these last years of Brezhnev the years of stagnation. And I sort of wonder whether we ...

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Quote of the Day | 0228

Economics, for example, which is central to our life at the moment … I just drift off when people talk about collateralised debt obligations, and I am not alone. It's impossible to illustrate on television, it's impossible to tell a ...

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Quote of the Day | 0508

Why don't we have big ideas or dreams any more? "Because now that there's nothing more important than you, how can you ever lose yourself in a grander idea? We're frightened of eccentricity, of loneliness. Individualism just wants to keep ...

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Quote of the Day | 0621

But British Petroleum didn't give up on trying to subvert and avoid the decisions of democratic governments. In particular its own, British, government. Adam Curtis, 'BP and the Axis of Evil'

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Quote of the Day | 0719

it means that we in the west have become like foolish bit-players blundering around in a complex regional war that we do not understand. Adam Curtis, 'Kabul: City Number One'

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Quote of the Day | 0914

the question is whether most Think Tanks may actually be preventing people thinking of new visions of how society could be organised - and made fairer and freer. That in reality they have become the armoured shell that surrounds all ...

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Quote of the Day | 1017

Adam, why is so much of modern TV journalism rubbish? “One important thing has risen up”, he says. “And that is emotionalism. We live in an age in which emotions have been given primacy. They just have. Primacy over reason, ...

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Quote of the Day | 1028

The American troops are like a powerful drug, he says, that cures a disease. It had bad side effects. But we can't get rid of them - because of all the money they are pouring into our country. Hamid Karzai, as ...

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Quote of the Day | 1208

We live in a modern ghost story. We are haunted by our past behaviour played back to us through the machines in its comparison to millions of other people’s behaviour. We are guided and nudged and shaped by that. It’s ...

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Televisiejaar 2007

The Genius of Photography, een documentairereeks die werd uitgezonden op BBC 4 --- niet eerder behandeld op eamelje.net, maar uiteindelijk de enige serie die ik in zijn geheel meer dan éen keer bekeken heb; The Trap, een documentairereeks van Adam Curtis, ...

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