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Surplus: Terrorized into Being Consumers (2003)

Watch full film here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXmuWecIQos

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Anachronism

a person, thing, or idea that exists out of its time in history, especially one that happened or existed later than the period being shown, discussed, etc.

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Truisms 

1978–87

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An infinity mirror is a pair of parallel mirrors, which create a series of smaller and smaller reflections that appear to recede to infinity.

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counter-memory: an individual's resistance against the official versions of historical continuity: the important thing becomes who remembers, what is the context of memory, and what does it oppose. ... It is not necessary that history and memory overlap. Counter-memory is the opposite of: collective memory. 

(Michael Foucault definition.)

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"Modern society is distinguished from its predecessors by its increased speed. This distances us from past social formations."

Paul Virilio in Unknown Quantity

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Observationalism

The theory that all knowledge is based on observation. Also: the belief that observation, rather than theory, is the basis of science. In recent use in the arts, and especially in film: a strictly factual and descriptive approach to documentary narrative.

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New Society

New Society was a weekly magazine of social inquiry and social and cultural comment, published in the United Kingdom from 1962 to 1988. It drew on the disciplines of sociology, anthropology, psychology, human geography, social history and social policy, and it published wide-ranging social reportage.

In the magazine's pages "ideas were always more important than ideology".

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Mass Obeservation

Mass-Observation was a United Kingdom social research organisation founded in 1937. Their work ended in the mid-1960s but was revived in 1981. The Archive is housed at the University of Sussex.

Mass-Observation aimed to record everyday life in Britain through a panel of around 500 untrained volunteer observers who either maintained diaries or replied to open-ended questionnaires (known as directives). They also paid investigators to anonymously record people's conversation and behaviour at work, on the street and at various public occasions including public meetings and sporting and religious events.

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Ambulant 

Zonder vaste plaats.

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Entropy

The lack of order or predictability; a gradual decline into disorder.

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”The future is the obsolete in reverse.”

Vladimir Nabokov

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Anarchrony

Discrepancy between the chronological order of events and the order in which they are related in a plot. 

Out of chronological order.

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Instantiatie is een filosofische term die wordt gebruikt in het metafysisch realisme en in het bijzonder in het Platonisme in verband met de wijze waarop concrete zaken vanuit (abstracte) universalia gestalte krijgen. Eenvoudig gesteld: een idee wordt concreet gemaakt. Plato gebruikte in dit verband de Griekse term παρουσία, wat letterlijk vertaald zou kunnen worden met aanwezigheid. Instantiatie kan vertaald worden als verwezenlijking of realisatie.

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“To compose is to make the world become one. This is the aim of all human spiritual endeavour.”

Karlheinz Stockhausen