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Dec 13, 2016

The Century of the Self

A Brief History of Psychoanalysis and Corporate Control

I just watched this four-hour doc from Adam Curtis on propaganda and social change and how we’re swimming in Freudian concepts like it or not. It’s older (2002), but it’s compelling viewing useful to weed…

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Nov 20, 2016

Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky

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Marie Snyder in Thrice Removed

Nov 21, 2016

HyperNormalisation:

Welcome to The Age of Absurdity

I added the subtitle above because this is one trippy film, but it’s important to see (or read this summary). It actually helps explain Trump. After Adam Curtis’s The Century of the Self, a very straight-forward…

Marie Snyder in Thrice Removed

Nov 20, 2016

The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains

Marie Snyder in Thrice Removed

Dec 13, 2016

Naomi Klein’s The Shock Doctrine

Operation Iraq Freedom, Economic Genocides, and the Dawn of Neo-Liberalism

Marie Snyder in Thrice Removed

Nov 21, 2016

Before the Flood

DiCaprio and Stevens’ attempt to change the world.

First of all, I love that this Leo DiCaprio film, directed by Fisher Stevens, was free to watch everywhere on the National Geographic Channel for a while. But if you missed it, here’s the gist of it below.

Marie Snyder in Thrice Removed

Nov 20, 2016

No Impact Man

“…There are two kinds of asceticism: one that is a fundamental rejection of creation…

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Books, films, and lectures summarized with citations, links, and some commentary. Get the main idea before you read or in order to find that perfect, sourced, quotation. (Table of Contents: https://medium.com/thrice-removed/contents-5f9471edfc5c)

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