it is dochs oars, sûnt 2001

Fear today has a free-floating dynamic

when he stated that the ‘only thing we have to fear is fear itself’[...] Roosevelt was trying to assure the public that it is both possible and necessary to minimise the impact of fear. His was a positive vision of ...

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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 ii

I'd like to pitch The Power of Nightmares again. A documentary series shown on BBC 2, on Wednesday 22.00 cet. As it is this rare thing: a visual essay more than a documentary. I am convinced TV is a ...

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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 | 1204

Would feral be an interesting way for thinking about how technology had unintended consequences? It occurred to me that of all the things that were most likely to go feral in the technological landscape it was data. It gets created ...

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