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The Cybernetic Hypothesis but these films by Lutz Dammbeck do a much better job than Tiqqun at exploring the same themes. The first one (2003) is about the history of cybernetics and includes correspondences between Ted Kaczynski and the filmmaker, and the latter (2015) picks up the thread in a different way, examining the origins of television game shows in early 20th c psychiatric practices which were incorporated in denazification efforts after WWII. They are not exactly straightforward documentaries and have an essayistic quality. He is an unequivocally better version of Adam Curtis: an artist pretending to be a documentary filmmaker, instead of a documentary filmmaker pretending to be an artist. He is somewhat prolific and has more films that are also interesting, always with a political or ideological backdrop, besides his animation and more experimental work. Everyone on dissensus has to watch these two
It’s unfortunate Tiqqun mask their shoddy and confused speculations with post-structuralist sophistry. Dammbeck, on the other hand, lays his absolutely bare, like a man:
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