Dogbo

The Net Documentary, The Unabomber, LSD, and the Internet 2003

Mark Castleman McClanahan Season 1 Episode 14

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Today I riff on The Net documentary, bouncing the cybernetic worldview off of a biblical one. Ultimately, stunning in its revelations, Lutz Dammbeck's THE NET explores the incredibly complex backstory 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 countercultural responses to the cybernetic revolution. 


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