Search Results for: shock therapy

1881 – How China escaped shock therapy w/ Isabella Weber (2021 podcast)

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Isabella M. Weber Sources/Economic policy concepts mentioned in the discussion: The Guanzi (管子) (China) Quantity Theory of Money Shock Therapy (economics) Ordoliberalism (Western Germany) Wirtschaftswunder (Western Germany) Ludwig Erhard (Western Germany) Price signal China’s Rural Reform (China) Chinese Economic Reform (China) Dual-track economy (China) household responsibility system (China) New Economic Mechanism (Hungary) Zhao Ziyang (China) Chen Yun (China) […]

2427 – Alone / Одна (1931 silent movie)

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timespace coordinates: post-revolutionary Soviet Union, ten years or so after the October Revolution Director: Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg. Full orchestral score by Dmitri Shostakovich We have covered here the Sino-Soviet Split, Soviet Science Fiction, Tetris, 1990s shock therapy that led to Putin’s Russia (Lenin is according to Putin latest speech the complete anti-hero), and Big […]

2417 – Wege in die Nacht / Paths in the Night (1999 Germany)

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timespace coordinates: Germany just after the 1989 reunification, in the transition years that have marked not just ex-Eastern Germany but the whole of Eastern Europe with a similar set of problems including deindustrialization, structural adjustment, shock therapy, mass layoffs, rising neo-nazi anti-immigrant sentiment, overnight privatizations, and defunding of the public sector (education, health, social welfare) […]

2404 – The Future Ahead Will Be Weird AF (the Ultimate AI CoreCore Experience) I+II part (2024)

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I am indebted to Rusty Foster to these incredible pastiches of Adam Curtis. “Silvia Dal Dosso predicts that The Future Ahead Will Be Weird AF but the present is already in the past and the weird future ahead is here right now.” SCAM FACTORIES Yes, magicians, managers, and PR agents have always multiplied illusions to our […]

2398 – UAP Romanian Socialist symposia (ost: Kate Bush Running on the Hill)

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This is one of my favorite detournement videos by Victor Plastic, an infamous digital media and dead media analog archivist from Romania who collects forgotten recordings, tapes, pop culture gems, games anything that escaped the Digital Dark Ages. I am really glad the video is still up and that I was able to find it […]

2230 – TraumaZone  aka What It Felt Like to Live Through The Collapse of Communism and Democracy by Adam Curtis 2023 (Russia 1985-1999)

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Russia 1985–1999: TraumaZone (subtitled in promotional media as What It Felt Like to Live Through The Collapse of Communism and Democracy) is a seven-part BBC documentary television series created by Adam Curtis. It was released on BBC iPlayer on 13 October 2022. Using stock footage shot by the BBC, the series chronicles the collapse of the Soviet Union, the rise of capitalist Russia and its […]

2127 / The Anarchists (HBO docuseries 2022)

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spacetime coordinates: a US enclave in Acapulco Mexico cca 2015 till now It showcases a series of events that unfold over six years. An impulsive one-time gathering in Acapulco, turns into an annual event. Directed by Todd Schramke. It showcases a series of events that unfold over six years. I have posted in the past […]