The Net: The Unabomber, LSD and the Internet

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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD Brand: FACETS VIDEO EAN: 0185713000131 Format: Color Label: Other Cinema Manufacturer: Other Cinema Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Other Cinema Region Code: 1 Release Date: 2006-04-25 Running Time: 121 Studio: Other Cinema Theatrical Release Date: 2003
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Editorial Reviews: Ultimately stunning in its revelations, Lutz Dammbeck's THE NET explores the incredibly complex back-story of Ted Kaczynski, the infamous Unabomber. This exquisitely crafted inquiry into the rationale of this mythic figure situates him within a late 20th Century web of technology - a system that he grew to oppose. A marvelously subversive approach to the history of the Internet, this insightful documentary combines speculative travelogue and investigative journalism to trace contrasting counter cultural responses to the cybernetic revolution. For those who resist these intrusive systems of technological control, the Unabomber has come to symbolize an ultimate figure of Refusal. For those that embrace it, as did and do the early champions of media art like Marshall McLuhan, Nam June Paik, and Stewart Brand, the promises of worldwide networking and instantaneous communication outweighed the perils. Dambeck's conceptual quest links these multiple nodes of cultural and political thought like the Internet itself. Circling through themes of utopianism, anarchism, terrorism, CIA, LSD, MK-ULTRA, Tim Leary, Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters, THE NET exposes conspiracies and upheavals, secrets and cover-ups along the way.