{"id":807,"date":"2013-07-09T08:20:59","date_gmt":"2013-07-09T08:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.de-brand.net\/blog\/?p=807"},"modified":"2013-07-09T15:30:24","modified_gmt":"2013-07-09T15:30:24","slug":"two-sides-of-the-medal_media-reality-and-surveillance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.de-brand.net\/blog\/2013\/07\/09\/two-sides-of-the-medal_media-reality-and-surveillance\/","title":{"rendered":"two sides of the medal: media reality and surveillance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2ssws7s8lvY\" height=\"390\" width=\"520\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The doomy atmosphere revokes my youth in the 80ies. Also the discourse is not completely contemporary, seems almost outworn\u00a0&#8212; not considering <a href=\"http:\/\/ukcatalogue.oup.com\/product\/9780199697052.do#.UdwhxD5Q3Cl\">web<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefilterbubble.com\/\">phenomena<\/a>\/<a href=\"http:\/\/www.netdelusion.com\/\">critic<\/a> and current approaches to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goethe.de\/ges\/soz\/wsc\/en9188517.htm\">eco-social<\/a>\/<a href=\"http:\/\/liquidfeedback.org\/\">political<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.demagazine.eu\/\">transformation<\/a> &#8212; but i think it is still relevant. In terms of style and discourse\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/blogs\/adamcurtis\/\">Adam Curtis<\/a>\u00a0and Massive Attack seems to be the perfect fit. Now that they work together i wonder why they didn&#8217;t find each other earlier. More on their current work:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/music\/2013\/jul\/07\/adam-curtis-massive-attack-review\">Guardian<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"Massive Attack and Adam Curtis open Manchester festival\">BBC<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I was reading about it yesterday on the Guardian <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/culture\/interactive\/2013\/jul\/08\/adam-curtis-massive-attack-what-is-reality\">in an article posted by the Adam Curtis himself<\/a>. But today that page was removed, while yesterday it was even featured on the start page of the Guardian. As if it was still open in my\u00a0browser, i saved it as a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.de-brand.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/AdamCurtisandMassive-Attack-whatisreality-TheGuardian.pdf\">PDF<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thoughtmaybe.com\/by\/adam-curtis\/\">More documentaries by Adam Curtis<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thoughtmaybe.com\">thoughtmaybe.com<\/a> &#8212; seems to be an excellent video platform for independent information (&#8220;Self-hosted, Self-funded, Self-directed, independent, autonomous&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p><strong>All this well-connects to the current affair around Edward Snowden. Listen to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/video\/2013\/jun\/09\/nsa-whistleblower-edward-snowden-interview-video\">the remarkable interview he gave in Hong Kong<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The doomy atmosphere revokes my youth in the 80ies. Also the discourse is not completely contemporary, seems almost outworn\u00a0&#8212; not considering web phenomena\/critic and current approaches to eco-social\/political\u00a0transformation &#8212; but i think it is still relevant. In terms of style and discourse\u00a0Adam Curtis\u00a0and Massive Attack seems to be the perfect fit. Now that they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,8,22,66,15,49,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aufklarung-information","category-dekontextualisierung","category-film-video","category-information-warfare","category-journalismus","category-nachrichten","category-visuelle-kommunikation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.de-brand.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.de-brand.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.de-brand.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.de-brand.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.de-brand.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.de-brand.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":811,"href":"https:\/\/www.de-brand.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807\/revisions\/811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.de-brand.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.de-brand.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.de-brand.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}