Bulletin 645

 

 

 

Subject:  ON CORPORATISM, THE IDEAL & THE HISTORICAL COST.

 

 

4 April 2015
Grenoble, France

 

 

Dear Colleagues and Friends of CEIMSA,

 

In this three-part series of Adam Curtis’s award-winning film, “The Living Dead,” which is available below, we see the uses and abuses of history in modern society.

 

The sterile idealism of the ruling class represents an attempt to mobilize society and popular support around private corporate interests, the ‘bottom line’ of which is, as always, maximum private profits.

 

History has much to teach us about such manipulations, and this is why history courses are being gutted in public schools today, as private corporate interests take increasing control over our classrooms and our minds . . . .

 

 

The Living Dead

(1995)

by Adam Curtin

 

 

 

1/3  “On the Desperate Edge of Now”

http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=the%20living%20dead%20curtis&qs=n&form=QBVR&pq=the%20living%20dead%20curtis&sc=0-16&sp=-1&sk=#view=detail&mid=8238656BB7D0463B449F8238656BB7D0463B449F

 

 

2/3 “You Have Used Me as a Fish Long Enough”

The Living Dead -2/3 “You Have Used Me as a Fish Long Enough”

http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=The+Living+Dead+curtis&FORM=HDRSC3#view=detail&mid=08C71DBFFC338204AB2C08C71DBFFC338204AB2C

 

 

3/3 “The Attic”

http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=the%20living%20dead%20curtis&qs=n&form=QBVR&pq=the%20living%20dead%20curtis&sc=0-16&sp=-1&sk=#view=detail&mid=9A0F3166FC6EA5C2B60B9A0F3166FC6EA5C2B60B

 

 

 

Sincerely,

Francis Feeley

 

Professor of American Studies

University of Grenoble-3

Director of Research

University of Paris-Nanterre

Center for the Advanced Study of American Institutions and Social Movements

The University of California-San Diego

http://dimension.ucsd.edu/CEIMSA-IN-EXILE/