All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace

The Use and Abuse of Vegetational Concepts

S1 • E2

1080p

8.2

This episode investigates how machine ideas such as cybernetics and systems theory were applied to natural ecosystems, and how this relates to the false idea that there is a balance of nature. Cybernetics has been applied to human beings to attempt to build societies without central control, self organising networks built of people, based on a fantasy view of nature.

Genre

Documentary War History

Country

United Kingdom

Release date

May 30, 2011

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