Adam Curtis (2011). S1.E3 'All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace: The Monkey in the Machine and the Machine in the Monkey'
https://www.youtube.com/embed/0ZSXOeTiUTc
Transcript: "what some people were beginning to see was that the computer networks and the global systems that they had created hadn't distributed power they had just shifted it and if anything concentrated it in new forms..." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZSXOeTiUTc&t=424s Transcript: "...some of the computer utopians from Silicon Valley were also beginning to realise that the worldwide web was not a new kind of democracy but something far more more complicated where power was exercised over the individual in new and surprising ways Carmen Hermosillo had been one of the earliest believers in the new communities of cyberspace her online name was humdog and she lived on the [US] West Coast but then she lost faith and she posted an attack which caused a sensation online. It is fashionable to suggest she wrote, that cyberspace is some 'island of the blessed' where people are free to indulge and express their individuality this is not true I have seen many people spill out their emotions their guts online and I did so myself until I began to see that I have commodified myself. Commodification means that you turn something into a product which has a money value. In the 19th century commodities were made in factories by workers who were mostly exploited but I created my interior thoughts as commodities for the corporations that owned the board that I was posting to like CompuServe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CompuServe or AOL and that commodity was then sold on to other consumer entities as entertainment. Cyberspace she wrote is a black hole it absorbs energy and personality and then represents it as an emotional spectacle it is done by businesses that commodify human interaction and emotion and we are getting lost in the spectacle." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZSXOeTiUTc&t=439s Bibliography: Crossley-Holland, D. (2011). 'The Monkey in the Machine and the Machine in the Monkey'. A. Curtis, Ed. & Trans. 'All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace'. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1958138/ Carmen Hermosillo AKA 'humdog' (1994). "pandora’s vox: on community in cyberspace" https://gist.github.com/kolber/2131643
