Das Netz

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by BK3

Brian Holmes offers a thought provoking take on some of the issues I'd previously come across in How We Became Posthuman and Adam Curtis' documentary The Trap. Holmes is discussing here the German documentary Das Netz:

"Why did control engineering leave such a deep mark on postwar social science, and indeed, on the American psyche? How did avant-garde artistic culture become so entangled with the ultra-rationalized discourse of cybernetics and the libertarian techno-utopia of the Internet? What else might be strung on the red thread that binds together the Cold Warriors of repressive military psychiatry, the psychedelic Merry Pranksters of the 1960s and the hybrid entrepreneurs of the New Economy? And what were the motivations of the man who mailed deadly letter bombs to a number of figures located precisely within that paradoxical triangle?"