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Can Universal Basic Income End Our Cultural Obsession With Work?

Documentary.net staff — Thu, 21 Sep 2017 11:46:03 +0000

In 1948, German philosopher Josef Pieper predicted that society was headed for a dystopia he called 'Total Work'. With most of us in 2017 working too long, missing social events, working on weekends, and egging on our older years just for the retirement, practical philosopher Andrew Taggart believes we have reached the verge of that dystopia. He describes the conditions that are tightening around us—our lives are scheduled around the needs of our jobs, our time with family and friends is subordinated to it (in a 5:2 ratio!), and our free time increasingly resembles work, in vocabulary and in action: we run errands, aim to have "productive" days, try to rest so that we are fresh for Monday—the start of another week. Taggart thinks Universal Basic Income is the ideological push we need to begin questioning how we can cut loose from our cultural obsession with work, and how we might live in a world without it. Are we human beings, or instruments of productivity? Has our intense focus on work become pathological? Transcript:'Total work' was a term coined by Josef Pieper, a lesser known German philosopher from the 20th century, and he was concerned that after World War II there would be a time of total work. By that I take him to mean that work comes to be the center around which the world turns. Human beings start to see themselves chiefly as workers, and the entirety of life becomes more and more work, or work like. To see this we can begin to examine a number of what I might call tightening conditions. So the first condition would be the centrality of work. We've come to think that work is actually the center and everything else begins to turn around it. To see this more clearly we can think about the fact that we woke up to go to work today or that we are going home from work today. That we are preparing for work. That we are preparing to leave work. And this is happening all the way around the world. Meanwhile we’re adjusting our schedules, the rest of our lives, so that they are turning about it. So that would be the first condition. The second condition is subordination. That everything else in life comes to seem as if it’s subordinate to, and to be put in the service of, work. We can think of sleeping: the idea is that we wish to sleep well today in order to be focused and prepared for work. And that when we’re at work we wish to be as productive as possible. So sleep becomes that which is an instrument in the service of productivity. And we can play that game with all sorts of different instances. The third condition is the resemblance claim. It seems as if everything else in life comes to resemble work, more and more. So you can think of, on a day off you are wanting to be as productive as possible, thinking about how much you got done. You can begin to think about all the ways in which you plan and schedule time with children. The terms that begin to mark out our lives even when we’re not actually working sound more and more work like. And the last condition I think is the most intense and that’s what I might call cultural forgetfulness. Well suppose there were to come to pass Universal Basic Income. And suppose, for the sake of argument, that that were sufficient to meet our material needs—that is, those concerned with having enough food, proper shelter, sufficient warmth, sufficient coldness, and the like, so that it was enough. As one philosopher, Harry Frankfurt, calls it we have doctrine of sufficiency. So suppose basic income allowed us all to have enough. Then once again I think we would need to think about what we would do with ourselves. Aristotle in 'Politics' says, really quite famously, that we non-leisure in order to have leisure. And that was the way that it would be translated: we non-leisure in order to have leisure. The question is how are we going to dwell on our leisure?And I think we’ve been educated to a point at which we really don’t know how to answer that question. People, I think, are struck by a very difficult condition, which is a medieval condition, called acedia.

Money for free? Basic Income

Documentary.net staff — Sun, 14 Jun 2015 07:39:37 +0000

Around the globe, experiments are conducted with alternatives for the existing social security system that has become stuck. People no longer believe in centrally organised long-term planning: change can only be brought about by bottom-up small-scale social experiments. Advocates of redistributing our prosperity and disconnecting work and income are fighting for this. In many places and using many different methods they are experimenting with handing out free money. Michael Bohmeyer, a young German, has started a crowdfunding campaign for an unconditional basic income. With every 12,000 euros raised, one person gets an income of 1000 euros per month for a year. So far, eight people have been receiving this basic income. There are no obligations other than to submit themselves to research into how this effects their lives. In New York, Michael meets venture investor Albert Wenger who has been thinking about basic income for years. With his company he invested in many internet companies and with these investments he has helped young internet geniuses get well-paid jobs. But Wenger also sees that digitalisation has caused many people to their jobs. Embracing the development toward a basic income, he argues a new perspective on work. British economist Guy Standing may be one of the greatest advocates of a thorough renewal of the social system. He has conducted basic income experiments in India and Namibia. He sees a growing economic class of flex workers and independent contractors with so little perspective that something needs to be done in order to prevent extensive social unrest. Earlier this year, Guy Standing was in Groningen on invitation by people from MIES (Association for Innovation of Economy and Society). Here, he had a conversation with Matthias Gijsbertsen, the alderman of Social Affairs of the city of Groningen. The alderman was inspired by the idea of a basic income and suggested to offer citizens of Groningen who are on social security the opportunity to earn extra money without lowering social security payments. Since 1982, all inhabitants of Alaska have received yearly dividends from the revenues of the oil and gas industry without any obligation whatsoever. The video features talks about the need for social security experiments to give people the opportunity to make the most of their own talents and qualities. Featuring: Guy Standing (economist, UK), Matthias Gijsbertsen (alderman for Social Affairs, Groningen), Albert Wenger (venture investor, New York) and Michael Bohmeyer (IT entrepreneur, Germany).

2015 Moscow Victory Day Parade / 360

Documentary.net staff — Wed, 20 May 2015 16:46:14 +0000

The 2015 Moscow Victory Day Parade is a parade that is taken place in Red Square in Moscow on 9 May 2015 to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the capitulation of Nazi Germany in 1945. More 360 video at http://www.airpano.ru Мы приглашаем вас на юбилейный военный парад на Красной площади 9 мая 2015 года, посвященный 70-й годовщине Победы Советского Союза в Великой Отечественной войне. Это самый масштабный парад в современной истории нашего государства Другие 360 видео на сайте http://www.airpano.ru

Charlie Hebdo – Before the Massacre

Documentary.net staff — Tue, 13 Jan 2015 06:50:48 +0000

In this short documentary filmed at Charlie Hebdo in 2006, cartoonists and editors design a satirical front page image of Muhammad. In February 2006 the editors of the French magazine Charlie Hebdo met to discuss a matter of what turned out to be deadly consequence: Would they publish a satirical image of Muhammad on their cover? We were making a documentary about Jean Cabut, known as Cabu, one of the most famous cartoonists in France. So we were there, filming his conversation with his colleagues as they chose the cover. The issue that came out of this meeting — with a Cabu cartoon on the cover and the images they discussed here — turned out to be one of the most popular in the magazine’s history. Almost nine years later, gunmen stormed this very meeting and killed 10 editors and cartoonists, including three of the people in this film: Cabu, Bernard Verlhac (known as Tignous) and Georges Wolinski. Video by Jérôme Lambert and Philippe Picard

Planet Ocean

Documentary.net staff — Fri, 01 Aug 2014 15:49:24 +0000

he film narrates the most marvelous and also the most terrifying human experiences of our time. Filmed in extreme geographical conditions all over the globe, it describes the modern Odyssey of people who go out to discover their blue planet. Can we imagine a film that would change the way people look at the ocean? Can we explain simply, to everyone, the greatest natural mystery of our planet? And lastly, can we help our children believe in a better and more sustainable world tomorrow? This is the triple challenge of a new cinema adventure signed by Yann Arthus-Bertrand and editor- in-chief Michael Pitiot, who brings with him the scientific missions of TARA, a unique pool of researchers, oceanographers and biolo- gists from several countries. Thanks to its astonishing photography, the film takes us on a magnificent and unprecedented journey into the heart of the least known regions of our planet. The film is also a plea for humanity to respect the world in which we live. It serves a noble and universal cause that will be defended at the next Earth Summit, in Rio, in 2012.

Secrets of The Dead – Bugging Hitler’s Soldiers

Documentary.net staff — Mon, 16 Jun 2014 07:45:40 +0000

Spied upon by MI19 in a bugging operation of unprecedented scale and cunning, 4,000 German POW's revealed their inner thoughts about the Third Reich and let slip military secrets that helped the Allies win WWII. Based on groundbreaking research conducted by a German historian, the film tells the story of how those conversations were recorded and how they can now reveal, in more shocking detail than ever before, the hearts and minds of the German fighter. In total, more than 100,000 hours of these secret recordings were made.

Natural Genius: Lights, Signals and Mirrors

Documentary.net staff — Tue, 03 Jun 2014 18:35:07 +0000

Color, light and movement, properly combinated, can produce messages. Some symbols are universal, however other visual languages are issued and understood only by a few species, and are like a secret code only for their eyes! Reflecting the light a thousand ways, some of them by night, others by day, color becomes words. Colors and feelings. The man does too, and we call it art.

Battle of the Jazz Guitarist (2013 Student Academy Award® National Finalist)

Documentary.net staff — Tue, 01 Apr 2014 04:48:27 +0000

A son makes a tribute documentary about his father, a once famous jazz guitarist from the Fiji Islands who gave up his career to move to America for the betterment of his family. But when the son can't help but to shed some light on some dark areas of their past, the documentary takes humorous, inventive and emotional turns, and gives great insight into the artist father-son relationship, and the crash of the American Dream. A film by Mark Columbus https://markcolumbus.squarespace.com/ Made with funds by Adobe® Official Selection (IDFA) International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam Official Selection ZINEBI ______________________________________ Winner Best Documentary Short (Student) at Palm Springs International Shortfest Winner Best Documentary Short at Guanajuato International Film Festival Winner Best Documentary Short at Traverse City Film Festival Winner of the Directors' Prize at the Paris Court Devant Winner Best Film Open Projector Night, Hammer Museum ______________________________________ Official Selection EDINDOCS Official Selection Rooftop Summer Series 2013 Official Selection Raindance Film Festival Official Selection Nashville Film Festival Official Selection New Orleans Film Festival Official Selection Dallas International Film Festival Official Selection Traverse City Film Festival Official Selection Arizona International Film Festival Official Selection RiverRun International Film Festival Official Selection Palm Springs Int'l Film Festival Official Selection Guanajuato International Film Festival Official Selection Starz Denver Film Festival Official Selection St. Louis International Film Festival Official Selection DOC:NYC Official Selection CFC Worldwide Short Film Festival Official Selection Atlanta Docufest Official Selection Warsaw Film Festival Official Selection Big Bear Lake International Film Festival Official Selection California Independent Film Festival Official Selection Jencheon International Music and Film Festival Official Selection DMZ Docs Official Selection Mill Valley Film Festival Official Selection Paris Courts Devant

The Final Member: Film about a Penis Museum and the “entry competition” between two men

Documentary.net staff — Thu, 27 Mar 2014 16:01:04 +0000

The film called "The final member" follows the aging curator of one of the world's only penis museum as he races against his own mortality to complete his comprehensive collection. Paris has the Louvre. London has the Tate Modern, and New York the Metropolitan Museum. But Husavik, Iceland — a diminutive village on the fringe of the Arctic Circle — boasts the world's only museum devoted exclusively to painstakingly preserved male genitalia. Founded and curated by Sigurður "Siggi" Hjartarson, the Icelandic Phallological Museum houses four decades worth of mammalian members, from a petite field mouse to the colossal sperm whale, and every "thing" in between. But, lamentably, Siggi's collection lacks the holy grail of phallic phantasmagoria: a human specimen. Siggi's world changes dramatically when he receives generous offers from an elderly Icelandic Casanova and an eccentric American. However, as the competition for eternal penile preservation heats up between the two men, Siggi soon discovers that this process is more complicated than it initially appeared. In their debut feature film, Jonah Bekhor and Zach Math follow Siggi on his dogged, often emotional quest to complete his exhibition in a peculiar, yet startlingly relatable, story of self-fulfillment and the value of personal legacies (both big and small). Another clip from the film https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZ1O7SRSaME#t=33

The Poodle Trainer

Documentary.net staff — Fri, 21 Feb 2014 20:19:33 +0000

In this intimate portrait of destiny, passion, and loss, Irina Markova, a solitary Russian poodle trainer, reveals her transcendent relationship with her dogs, the childhood tragedy that sparked a lifetime of working with animals, and the welcome isolation behind the red velvet curtains of the circus. Multi festival favorite, the Poodle Trainer received a special Jury award from AFI/Silverdocs, "for a film that packs humor and tragedy into a subtle and perfectly paced 7 minutes." Festivals include: Sundance, Cinema Eye Best Short, Worldwide Shortsfest Best Documentary, Grand Jury Prize for best short doc at GenArt, GrandOff Warsaw, Tiburon, Ashland Independent Film Festival, Cinema Corto, AFI/Silverdocs, Melbourne International, CFC Worldwide, Nashville, Calgary, Seattle Independent Film Festival thepoodletrainer.com

China’s Web Junkies – Internet Addiction Documentary

Documentary.net staff — Thu, 23 Jan 2014 15:26:51 +0000

Compulsive Internet use has been categorized as a mental health issue in many countries, including the United States, but China was among the first to label “Internet addiction” a clinical disorder. In this Op-Doc video, we show the inner workings of a rehabilitation center where Chinese teenagers are “deprogrammed.” The Internet Addiction Treatment Center, in Daxing, a suburb of Beijing, was established in 2004. It was one of the first of its kind – and there are now hundreds of treatment programs throughout China and South Korea. (The first inpatient Internet addiction program in the United States recently opened in Pennsylvania.) The program featured in this video admits teenagers, usually male, whose parents typically take them there against their will. Once inside, the children are kept behind bars and guarded by soldiers. Treatment, which often lasts three to four months, includes medication and therapy, and sometimes includes parents. Patients undergo military-inspired physical training, and their sleep and diet are carefully regulated. These techniques (some of which are also used in China to treat other behavioral disorders) are intended to help the patients reconnect with reality. Yet after four months of filming in this center (for our documentary “Web Junkie”), some vital questions remained: Are the children being accurately evaluated? And is the treatment effective? In many cases, it seemed parents were blaming the Internet for complex social and behavioral issues that may defy such interventions. (For example, we noticed that some patients experienced difficult family relationships, social introversion and a lack of friends in the physical world.) Tao Ran, the center’s director, claims a 70 percent success rate. If that’s true, perhaps China’s treatment model is something other nations should embrace, however disturbing it may seem to outsiders. There is still no real global consensus among experts about what constitutes addiction to the Internet, and whether the concept even exists, particularly in a strict medical sense. What is clear is that this issue is not confined to China. With millions (if not billions) glued to screens and electronic devices, the overuse of technology is becoming a universal, transnational concern. While treatment methods may vary, one way or another, we will need to find effective ways to moderate our use of technology and provide help to those who need it. This video is part of a series produced by independent filmmakers who have received support from the nonprofit Sundance Institute. New York Times.

The Umbrella Man

Documentary.net staff — Sun, 24 Nov 2013 18:16:12 +0000

On the 48th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Errol Morris explores the story behind the one man seen standing under an open black umbrella at the site.

Unmanned: America’s Drone Wars

Documentary.net staff — Sun, 10 Nov 2013 18:45:41 +0000

Director Robert Greenwald investigates the impact of U.S. drone strikes at home and abroad through more than 70 separate interviews, including a former American drone operator who shares what he has witnessed in his own words, Pakistani families mourning loved ones and seeking legal redress, investigative journalists pursuing the truth, and top military officials warning against blowback from the loss of innocent life. Throughout Unmanned, Greenwald intersperses in-depth interviews with never-before-seen footage from the tribal regions in Pakistan to humanize those who have been impacted by our drone policy. This footage, alongside interviews with Pakistani drone survivors, describes the brutal reality of drone attacks ordered during the Obama Administration. The film highlights the stories of 16 year old Tariq Aziz, killed by a drone a mere week after he participated in a public conference in Islamabad in 2011, and a school teacher, Rafiq ur Rehman, grappling with the loss of his elderly mother and the hospitalization of his children due to a drone strike last year, showing how delicate life can be in this virtual war where no one is accepting responsibility for the casualties. In candid conversations with experts like Lawrence Wilkerson, former Chief of State to Secretary of State Colin Powell; David Kilcullen former advisor to NATO and General Petraeus; and Vicki Divoli, former deputy legal advisor to the CIA’s counterterrorism Center, Unmanned reveals that these covert military actions are often imprecise and result in creating more enemies for the American people who have little knowledge of how drone targets are set and the killings carried out.

A Year of Recovery After Hurricane Sandy

Documentary.net staff — Sun, 03 Nov 2013 17:15:01 +0000

Times Documentaries presents "Coming Back: A Year of Recovery After Hurricane Sandy." A video portrait of four neighborhoods struggling in the aftermath of the 2012 storm. "With the first anniversary of Hurricane Sandy approaching, we asked readers who had been affected by the storm to tell us how they were recovering. They responded with stories of frustrations and silver linings, offering glimpses at the physical, financial and emotional impacts that remain. Here are their stories, in their own words, of lives divided into before and after the hurricane." Watch the film & Read the full story here: nytimes.com

Breathtaking POV video shows Stratos jump in full length

Documentary.net staff — Wed, 16 Oct 2013 08:02:25 +0000

On October 14 2012, the Austrian extreme sportsman Felix Baumgartner jumped from a capsule in a free fall to the ground. On the anniversary of the Stratos project, a video was released showing the jump from several perspectives. The video also shows the critical seconds when Baumgartner began to turn dangerously. In addition, you can see data like altitude, G-forces, speed and Baumgartner's pulse. Red Bull Stratos was a space diving project involving Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner. On 14 October 2012, Baumgartner flew approximately 39 kilometres into the stratosphere over New Mexico, United States, in a helium balloon before free falling in a pressure suit and then parachuting to Earth. The total jump, from leaving the capsule to landing on the ground, lasted approximately ten minutes. While the free fall was initially expected to last between five and six minutes, Baumgartner deployed his parachute after 4 minutes and 19 seconds. You can find a documentary about the project at stratos.rdioexclusives.com (You have to either register or use your Facebook account to be able to see it).