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5. Special Episode: Huxley Now!
In this very special episode to commemorate the third annual Huxley Day, and in collaboration with the Aldous Huxley Centre Zürich, Toby and Emily speak to some of the teenagers involved in a recent cinematic adaptation of Brave New World. The film, Follow Me, provides a fresh and incisive take on Huxley’s classic dystopia, speaking to contemporary manifestations of paranoia and control in our digital age today.
We are lucky to be able to share a snippet of the film with you, as well as bring you some insightful discussion from the next generation of filmmakers and thinkers. In this episode, we discuss social media, the role of technology, control through pleasure, and surveillance, among other topics.
Bringing young people directly into conversation with Aldous Huxley, we also share a snippet from Huxley’s interview with Mike Wallace (1958), in which he discusses his thoughts on technology’s power to control and surveil. Back then it was radio, today it is the algorithm.
Huxley’s warnings about ubiquitous technologies that fall into the wrong hands prove evergreen and as urgent as ever. Describing people sleepwalking into technologies that encourage us to do things we didn’t foresee or intend, he questions the value of achieving convenience and comfort at the cost of our own agency. These very thoughts are still being voiced by teenagers today, almost 70 years later.
The link to the full film is below, and we wish you a very enjoyable Huxley Day, however you may choose to celebrate it.
Follow Me (Film):
https://www.filmkidsplus.ch/video/BDbD1m5dl2/
Huxley’s interview with Mike Wallace (1958):
E M Forster - The Machine Stops:
https://share.google/Ze8emannX52Bam5RO
Aldous Huxley - Brave New World Revisited:
https://www.huxley.net/bnw-revisited.pdf
Triumph of the Will (Film):
https://www.youtube.com/clip/UgkxohCX-PyVLIJ_tHvzsQHpJlFECdakZuJt
Peter Kreeft - Between Heaven and Hell: A Dialog Somewhere Beyond Death with John F. Kennedy, C. S. Lewis, & Aldous Huxley:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Between_Heaven_and_Hell_(novel)
This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit themesandvariations.substack.com
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By Themes and VariationsIn this very special episode to commemorate the third annual Huxley Day, and in collaboration with the Aldous Huxley Centre Zürich, Toby and Emily speak to some of the teenagers involved in a recent cinematic adaptation of Brave New World. The film, Follow Me, provides a fresh and incisive take on Huxley’s classic dystopia, speaking to contemporary manifestations of paranoia and control in our digital age today.
We are lucky to be able to share a snippet of the film with you, as well as bring you some insightful discussion from the next generation of filmmakers and thinkers. In this episode, we discuss social media, the role of technology, control through pleasure, and surveillance, among other topics.
Bringing young people directly into conversation with Aldous Huxley, we also share a snippet from Huxley’s interview with Mike Wallace (1958), in which he discusses his thoughts on technology’s power to control and surveil. Back then it was radio, today it is the algorithm.
Huxley’s warnings about ubiquitous technologies that fall into the wrong hands prove evergreen and as urgent as ever. Describing people sleepwalking into technologies that encourage us to do things we didn’t foresee or intend, he questions the value of achieving convenience and comfort at the cost of our own agency. These very thoughts are still being voiced by teenagers today, almost 70 years later.
The link to the full film is below, and we wish you a very enjoyable Huxley Day, however you may choose to celebrate it.
Follow Me (Film):
https://www.filmkidsplus.ch/video/BDbD1m5dl2/
Huxley’s interview with Mike Wallace (1958):
E M Forster - The Machine Stops:
https://share.google/Ze8emannX52Bam5RO
Aldous Huxley - Brave New World Revisited:
https://www.huxley.net/bnw-revisited.pdf
Triumph of the Will (Film):
https://www.youtube.com/clip/UgkxohCX-PyVLIJ_tHvzsQHpJlFECdakZuJt
Peter Kreeft - Between Heaven and Hell: A Dialog Somewhere Beyond Death with John F. Kennedy, C. S. Lewis, & Aldous Huxley:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Between_Heaven_and_Hell_(novel)
This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit themesandvariations.substack.com