Web Junkie
This documentary movie is superb. It has China, cyberpunk saturation, metaphysics, horror, humor, and the most extreme immersion in absolute sarcasm as a strategy of elusive dissidence ever realized in any medium. Every dimension of production is executed brilliantly, and the screenplay is a masterpiece (it’s a text I’d be almost ready to kill for right now). It’s probably not an easy cultural object to get hold of, but it’s seriously worth the effort.
Is it a “mockumentary,” or does such a rehab centre actually exist?
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Posted on December 11th, 2014 at 3:00 pm | QuoteThe full version of the documentary seems to be viewable here
There’s also a slightly truncated version up on YouTube.
@Scharlach:
These rehab facilities exist. And they don’t appear to be very nice places, either. For instance, here they are in the news recently…
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Posted on December 11th, 2014 at 3:10 pm | QuoteMy brother did a stint as a wilderness educator. Two week trips to introduce spoiled city kids to Gnon. No cell phones were permitted. Kids freaked out, although they knew the rules in advance. Sad.
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Posted on December 11th, 2014 at 3:13 pm | QuoteInteresting. I’m writing for a couple of film sites now, so I can get to a press screening once (if) it shows here in the UK.
Nick, have you seen The Rise and Rise of Bitcoin Docu yet?
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Posted on December 11th, 2014 at 4:27 pm | QuoteThere are futurists and druids, but where is the love for the dysfuturists? I welcome the future, and it is going to be a nightmare.
The darker the night is in its lack
The brighter the stars may shine
A great host without shape or line
By darkness made brighter in fact
But points which are the heaven’s eyes
The blind chiaroscuro of the skies
We predict not the coming of a new day
Not at dusk’s sky tinted the shade of blood
Not from men scraping around the mud
Or from the weather the omens now say
The suns revoke every spotless ray
No storm to swallow us whole is nigh
But the clouds – the restless clouds!
– have shut out the sky.
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Posted on December 11th, 2014 at 5:24 pm | QuoteTo be clear is this BBC documentary the one you’re talking about?
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Erebus Reply:
December 11th, 2014 at 5:58 pm
That’s the one. Mostly. It’s not complete as it’s missing the first few minutes.
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Posted on December 11th, 2014 at 7:47 pm | QuoteFrom the film’s’ FB page: “Web Junkie is now available on all good VOD platforms including Blinkbox, Google Play and iTunes!” https://itunes.apple.com/gb/movie/web-junkie/id908750836
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Posted on December 11th, 2014 at 10:12 pm | QuoteHere is the best part of that documentary.
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Posted on December 12th, 2014 at 3:17 am | Quote“We modern men, we are the inheritors of thousands of years of vivisection of the conscience and self-inflicted animal torture. That’s what we have had the longest practice doing, that is perhaps our artistry; in any case, it’s something we have refined, the corruption of our taste. For too long man has looked at his natural inclinations with an “evil eye,” so that finally in him they have become twinned with “bad conscience.” An attempt to reverse this might, in itself, be possible—but who is strong enough for it, that is, to link as siblings bad conscience and the unnatural inclinations, all those aspirations for what lies beyond, those things which go against our senses, against our instincts, against nature, against animals—in short, the earlier ideals, all the ideals which are hostile to life, ideals of those who vilify the world? To whom can we turn to today with such hopes and demands?”
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Posted on December 12th, 2014 at 3:40 am | QuoteFoolish state-puppets think some mere dull torture will eradicate K-virus from The Infected. Yet they have only exacerbated the xeno-venom, escalating their children’s rapid descent into cyberpunk insanity, teaching them new cunning and camouflage, secreting their virtual obsessions within cryptic mind-crypts and psyche-craters, and passing on the valuable lessons of espionage learnt while at war against the hostile phenomenologies of state psychiatrists and Luddite parents. Soon web-junkies will out-number their enemies, and then the native cultures of the internet will rule in every real and virtual world!
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Posted on December 12th, 2014 at 1:21 pm | QuoteI can quit anytime, I jut don’t want to.
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Posted on December 12th, 2014 at 1:25 pm | Quoteare the subtitles encoded in the file? or does it come with a .srt file? because .srt files can be viewed in word or notepad.
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Posted on December 12th, 2014 at 1:30 pm | Quote[…] Land takes note of how the PRC is tackling the problems of superstimulus head-on. Most of the BBC documentary is up on Youtube here (while it lasts). Also from His Outsideness, […]
Posted on December 12th, 2014 at 4:55 pm | QuoteI like this one.
http://vimeo.com/19598947
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Posted on December 12th, 2014 at 7:18 pm | Quote