Episodes
Love and Power
In the first episode, Curtis tracks the effects of Ayn Rand's ideas on American financial markets, particularly via the influence on Alan Greenspan.
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 to attempt to build societies without central control, self organising networks built of people, based on a fantasy view of nature.
The Monkey in the Machine and the Machine in the Monkey
This programme looked into the selfish gene theory which holds that humans are machines controlled by genes which was invented by William Hamilton. Adam Curtis also covered 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.
Cast
Adam Curtis
Self - Narrator (voice)
Ayn Rand
Stewart Brand
Self
Peder Anker
Self
David Attenborough
Self
Richard Brautigan
Self
Bill Clinton
Self
Richard Dawkins
Self
Tord Björk
Self
Daniel Botkin
Self
Crew
Dominic Crossley-Holland
Executive Producer
Emma Fowler
Production Manager
Lucy Kelsall
Producer
Adam Curtis
Creator
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