Bugs in the Vampire Castle
A sneak peek at something I want to make. For subscribers only.
Once Pistachio Wars gets fully released to the public later this summer (official announcement coming soon), I’m thinking about starting work on my next doc project — a series about the internet.
If I do end up doing it, I’ll use my book Surveillance Valley as a starting point and bring things up to date. But I also want to go deeper and talk about the political and cultural effects of social media and our information-saturation environment…about how this tech has changed our world and how it has changed us. One thing I’d like to explore is pacification. The internet was born out of the Pentagon’s pacification efforts during the Vietnam War. And the more I look at the internet today, the more convinced I am that the pacification dimension of this technology is still with us right now — and that this function is even more powerful than anything that America’s technocratic planners envisioned back in the 1960s.
Anyway, to get myself in the mood I sat down and I cut a teaser…