Underplayed Gems

Das Netz (2003)

Das Netz poster
Directed by
Lutz Dammbeck
Genre
documentary film
Country
Germany
Runtime
2h 01m
Rated
NR
Rating
6.3 of 10 from 13 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

This documentary examines the people and ideas that shaped the internet and today's tech society. It looks at figures from revolutionary artists and idealistic hippies to counterculture personalities and cybernetic scientists, while also including the perspective of neo-luddite Theodore Kaczynski through his letters with the filmmaker.

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What happens

Das Netz (La Toile ou Voyage en cybernétique) est un film indépendant allemand réalisé par Lutz Dammbeck (de) et sous-titré Unabomber, le LSD et l'Internet, sorti en 2005. Le film explore les idées et l'histoire des divers personnalités et mouvements ayant créé internet, et la société technologique actuelle : les artistes révolutionnaires Marshall McLuhan et Nam June Paik les hippies idéalistes comme Timothy Leary et Ken Kesey les artistes de la contre-culture tels que John Brockman et Stewart Brand et les cybernéticiens et systémiciens tels que Robert Taylor et Heinz von Foerster. En toile de fond surgissent les idées du néo-luddite Theodore Kaczynski (alias Unabomber), dans un échange par lettres avec Lutz Dammbeck. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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