Month: August 2007
The Century of the Self – BBC Video Documentary
About ” The Century of the Self ” :
To many in both politics and business, the triumph of the self is the ultimate expression of democracy, where power has finally moved to the people. Certainly the people may feel they are in charge, but are they really? 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?
More on the series:
Episode One: Happiness Machines
Episode Two: The Engineering of Consent
Episode Three: There is a Policeman Inside All Our Head: He Must Be Destroyed
Episode Four: Eight People Sipping Wine in Kettering
The Century of the Self 1 – BBC Video Documentary
The Century of the Self 2 – BBC Video Documentary
The Century of the Self 3 – BBC Video Documentary
The Century of the Self 4 – BBC Video Documentary
Two Online Video Documentaries : " The Century of the Self " ; " The Corporation "
The following links lead to very interesting documentaries , understanding powerful forces that developed in the last century – also see short description of documentaries below. all the best , Dante – note : these links have been forwarded to me , and possibly some of you , by Niall – Thanks !
The first one is a shareware , shortened version of
” The Corporation ”
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3969792790081230711
and the second is a series of 4 documentaries produced by the BBC , called
” The Century of the Self “
part 1 ) http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2637635365191428174
part 2 ) http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-678466363224520614
part 3 ) http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6111922724894802811
part 4 ) http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1122532358497501036
About ” The Century of the Self ” :
extract from http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/features/century_of_the_self.shtml
To many in both politics and business, the triumph of the self is the ultimate expression of democracy, where power has finally moved to the people. Certainly the people may feel they are in charge, but are they really? 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?
About ” The Corporation ” :
extract from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Corporation
The Corporation is a 2003 Canadian documentary film critical of the modern-day corporation , considering it as a class of person and evaluating its behaviour towards society and the world at large as a psychologist might evaluate an ordinary person. This is explored through specific examples.
Panocracy
I d like to share the post related to PANOCRACY , that I sent to the open couchsurfing google group :
groups.google.com/group/open-couchsurfing/browse_thread/thre…
Wikipedia entry of Panocracy :
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panocracy
and my forum post on CS :
Fela Kuti – Music is the Weapon
copied from http://www.ballofstringtheory.com
It’s ten years to the day that Fela Kuti died of AIDS. Here’s a clip from the 1982 documentary ‘Music is the Weapon’ by Stephane Tchal-Gadjieff and Jean Jacques Flori.