The Net (2004)

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Movie
Original title The network
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2004
length 121 minutes
Rod
Director Lutz Dammbeck
script Lutz Dammbeck
production Lutz Dammbeck
music Jörg Udo Lensing
camera James Carman , István Imre , Thomas Plenert
cut Margot Neubert-Maric
occupation

Das Netz - Unabomber, LSD and Internet is a book and documentary film by Lutz Dammbeck about the origin of the Internet and possible parallels from the fields of art and lifestyle. The film shows and interviews people who were involved in the development of Internet technologies or their sociological theories.

The development of technophobic protagonist as a counterpoint Theodore Kaczynski shown that as Unabomber numerous attacks executed on technology-creating people.

content

The starting point is the cybernetic view of the Internet and the parallels to the modern art scene. The first interview is with the American literary agent John Brockman , whose author David Gelernter , a computer scientist, was injured by an Unabomber bomb. Brockman describes his personal beginnings in art and the successful connection with modern computer science. Culture of copy - the documentation then goes on the trail of the Unabomber and his manifesto.

The following interview interviewed the author Stewart Brand , who took part in LSD tests in the 1970s and initiated the WELL computer network .

Furthermore, it is about the Unabomber's manifesto and himself.

The connections between science and the military are presented. The scientific offer of Norbert Wieners , who worked for the government of the USA during the Second World War, is addressed. Wiener is the founder of cybernetics . The theoretical presentation of cybernetics begins with a treatise on SAGE and the ARPANET . The cybernetic theory is presented in the following mainly in interviews with the cyberneticist and social constructivist Heinz von Foerster .

The sociological approaches of the Macy conferences , via cybernetics, the approaches of the Frankfurt School to develop a fascism scale, are outlined as influences on the development of the Internet.

style

The film is accompanied by a kind of mind map by the author, on which he records the key words of the film depending on the sequence. In the background you can hear some radio news about the ongoing war in Afghanistan .

criticism

Dammbeck is criticized for stylizing the multiple murderer Theodore Kaczynski as a theory carrier. Dammbeck confronts most of his interviewees with Kaczynski's manifesto. Although they categorically reject his methods, some respond to the criticism with their own arguments. Learned says that Kaczynski is mentally ill and that his assassinations only served the publicity of his work.

In the film, however, Dammbeck asks himself why nobody wants to talk about the Unabomber and suspects a "system" that absorbs any criticism as energy in order to perfect itself.

credentials

literature

  • Brian Holmes: Filming the World Laboratory. Cybernetic History. In: Activist Art in the Control Society . Van Abbemuseum Public Research # 2. Eindhoven / Zagreb / ​​Istanbul 2009.
  • Stefan Preis: Traces of something invisible. The Kaczynski case viewed as a library phenomenon. Scientific publishing house Berlin 2015.
  • Stefan Preis / Julian Knop : The Kaczynski Case - Terrorism as Communication. Empirical research report . Scientific publishing house Berlin 2015.

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