Friday 20 May 2011

In Mark Fisher's lecture about the crackle, one concept stuck with me the most--the idea of the iSociety, based on immediate connectedness to the entire world which is concurrent with an immense metaphysical isolation. I think he called it "connected loneliness," or "networked loneliness."

It's as if Adam Curtis was at the lecture and used it as the inspiration for this new documentary of his, "All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace":

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