Adam Curtis Films
All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace
TV-PG
Kevin Adam Curtis (born 26 May 1955) is a British documentary film-maker. Curtis says that his favourite theme is "power and how it works in society", and his works explore areas of sociology, psychology, philosophy and political history.
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5 Episodes
- All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace: Part 2. 'The Use and Abuse of Vegetational Concepts'E2
All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace: Part 2. 'The Use and Abuse of Vegetational Concepts'This episode investigates how machine ideas such as cybernetics and systems theory were applied to natural ecosystems, and how this relates to the false idea that there is a balance of nature. Cybernetics has been applied to human beings in an attempt to build societies without central control, self organising networks built of people, based on a fantasy view of nature. - All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace: Part 3. 'The Monkey in the Machine and the Machine in the Monkey'E3
All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace: Part 3. 'The Monkey in the Machine and the Machine in the Monkey'This episode looks into the selfish gene theory invented by William Hamilton, which holds that humans are machines controlled by genes. Curtis also covers the source of ethnic conflict that was created by Belgian colonialism's artificial creation of a racial divide and the ensuing slaughter that occurred in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which is a source of raw material for computers and cell phones.
