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-'''Kevin Adam Curtis''' (born 1955) is an English documentary film-maker. Curtis describes his work as [[journalism]] that happens to be expounded via the medium of film. Curtis says that his favourite theme is "[[Power (social and political)|power]] and how it works in [[society]]", and his works explore areas of [[sociology]], [[psychology]], [[philosophy]] and [[political history]], using [[archive footage]] in a [[juxtapositional]] [[collage]] manner. He has been closely associated with the [[BBC]] throughout his career. 
-While his work has generally met with critical acclaim (his films have won four [[British Academy Television Awards|BAFTA]]s, critics have called him a [[conspiracy theory|conspiracy theorist]][https://www.reddit.com/r/BritishTV/comments/2v1rqk/does_anyone_else_find_adam_curtis_documentaries/] and Ben Woodhams described ''[[Bitter Lake (film)|Bitter Lake]]'' in the spoof "[[The Loving Trap]]" [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1bX3F7uTrg] as the "televisual equivalent of a drunken late night Wikipedia binge with pretension for narrative coherence".+'''Left-libertarianism''' (or '''left-wing libertarianism''') names several related but distinct approaches to [[political]] and social theory, which stresses both [[Political freedom|individual freedom]] and social equality.
-He is known for such documentaries as ''[[The Trap (TV series)|The Trap]]'',''[[The Century of the Self]]'' and ''[[The Power of Nightmares]]''.+In its classical usage, left-libertarianism is a synonym for [[anti-authoritarian]] varieties of [[left-wing politics]], i.e. [[libertarian socialism]], which includes [[anarchism]] and [[libertarian Marxism]], among others. Left-libertarianism can also refer to political positions associated with academic philosophers [[Hillel Steiner]], [[Philippe Van Parijs]] and [[Peter Vallentyne]] that combine [[self-ownership]] with an egalitarian approach to natural resources.
-==Career==+
-===Early career===+Left-libertarians, while maintaining full respect for [[personal property]], are skeptical of or fully against private property, arguing that neither claiming nor [[Labor theory of property|mixing one's labor]] with [[natural resource]]s is enough to generate full [[private property]] rights and maintain that natural resources (land, oil, gold, vegetation) should be held in an [[egalitarian]] manner, either unowned or [[owned collectively]]. Those left-libertarians who support private property do so under the condition that recompense is offered to the local community. Many left-libertarian schools of thought are [[communist]], advocating the eventual replacement of money with [[labor voucher]]s or [[decentralized planning]].
-Curtis applied to the [[BBC]] and was hired to make a film for one of its training courses, comparing designer clothes in music videos to the design of weapons. He was subsequently given a post on ''[[That's Life!]]'', a magazine series that juxtaposed hard-hitting investigations and light-hearted content. He was a film director on ''Out of Court'', a [[BBC Two]] legal series, from 1980 until 1982.+
-===Politics===+On the other hand, [[left-wing market anarchism]], which includes [[Pierre-Joseph Proudhon]]'s [[Mutualism (economic theory)|mutualism]] and [[Samuel Edward Konkin III]]'s [[agorism]], appeals to left-wing concerns such as [[egalitarianism]], [[gender]] and [[Sexual identity|sexuality]], [[Social class|class]], immigration and [[environmentalism]] within the paradigm of a socialist free market. In the U.S., the word "libertarian" has become associated with [[right-libertarianism]] after [[Murray Rothbard]] and [[Karl Hess]] reached out to the [[New Left]] in the 1960s. However, until then political usage of the word was associated exclusively with [[anti-capitalism]] and in most parts of the world such an association still predominates.
-Curtis is inspired by [[Max Weber]], a liberal [[sociologist]] from Germany who challenged the "crude, left-wing, [[vulgar Marxism]] that says that everything happens because of economic forces within society". Of his general political outlook, Curtis has also remarked: +
-:'People often accuse me of being a lefty. That's complete rubbish. If you look at ''[[The Century of the Self]]'', what I'm arguing is something very close to a [[neoconservatism|neoconservative]] position because I'm saying that, with the rise of [[individualism]], you tend to get the corrosion of the other idea of social bonds and communal networks, because everyone is on their own. Well, that's what the neoconservatives argue, domestically. [...] If you ask me what my politics are, I'm very much a creature of my time. I don't really have any. I change my mind over different issues, but I am much more fond of a libertarian view. I have a more libertarian tendency [...] What's astonishing in our time is how the Left here has completely failed to come up with any alternatives, and I think you may well see a [[Left-libertarianism|lefty libertarianism]] emerging because people will be much more sympathetic to it, or just a libertarianism, and out of that will come ideas. And I don't mean "localism".'+== See also ==
- +* [[Social liberalism]]
-He believes the Western world is haunted by the past, with no vision for the future, and that it has become pessimistic and backward-looking.+* [[Classical liberalism]]
- +* [[Social democracy]]
-===Documentaries===+* [[Social market economy]]
- +* [[Eco-capitalism]]
-Curtis cites the ''[[USA Trilogy]]'', a series of three novels by [[John Dos Passos]] that he first read when he was thirteen, as the greatest influence on his work: +* [[Free-market environmentalism]]
- +* [[Grassroots democracy]]
-:"You can trace back everything I do to that novel because it's all about grand history, individual experience, their relationship. And also collages, quotes from newsreels, cinema, newspapers. And it's about collage of history as well. That's where I get it all from."+* [[Green anarchism]]
- +* [[Green libertarianism]]
-Other creative influences are [[Robert Rauschenberg]] and [[Émile Zola]]. Curtis makes extensive use of archive footage in his documentaries. He has acknowledged the influence of recordings made by [[Erik Durschmied]] and is "constantly using his stuff in my films".+* [[Individualist anarchism]]
- +* [[Individualist feminism]]
-Instead of specially composed music because it "creates a sort of monoculture", he uses tracks from a variety of genres, decades, and countries, as well as sound effects that he discovers on old tapes.+* [[Libertarian paternalism]]
- +* [[Libertarian socialism]]
-According to a profile of Curtis by Tim Adams, published in ''[[The Observer]]'': "If there has been a theme in Curtis's work … it has been to look at how different elites have tried to impose an ideology on their times, and the tragicomic consequences of those attempts".+* [[Lockean proviso]]
- +* [[Radicalism (historical)|Radical movement]]
-In 2005, Curtis received the Golden Gate Persistence of Vision Award at the [[San Francisco International Film Festival]]. In 2006, he was given the [[Alan Clarke]] Award for Outstanding Creative Contribution to Television at the [[British Academy Television Awards]]. In 2009, the [[Sheffield Doc/Fest|Sheffield International Documentary Festival]] gave Curtis the Inspiration Award for inspiring viewers and other documentary filmmakers. In 2015, he was awarded the True Vision Award by the [[True/False Film Fest]].+* [[Right-libertarianism]]
- +* [[Social ecology]]
-===Blog===+
-Curtis administers a [[blog]] subtitled 'The Medium and the Message' hosted by the BBC. He has tentative plans to expand the project.+
- +
- +
-==Filmography==+
-{| class="wikitable sortable"+
-|-+
-! Year+
-! Title+
-! Subject+
-! Parts+
-! Channel/Venue+
-! Awards+
-|-+
-| 1983+
-| ''Just Another Day: Selfridges''+
-| Behind the scenes at [[Selfridges]], a department store on [[Oxford Street]], [[London]].+
-| +
-| [[BBC Two]], 29 March 1983+
-|+
-|-+
-| 1983+
-| ''Just Another Day: The Seaside''+
-| A typical day in [[Walton-on-the-Naze]].+
-| +
-| BBC Two, 19 April 1983+
-|+
-|-+
-| 1983+
-| ''Trumpets and Typewriters: A History of War Reporting''+
-| The history of [[war correspondent]]s.+
-|+
-| [[BBC One]], 19 July 1983|+
-|-+
-| 1984+
-| ''Inquiry: The Great British Housing Disaster''.+
-| The system-built housing of the 1960s. Narrated by David Jones.+
-|+
-| BBC Two, 4 September 1984+
-|+
-|-+
-| 1984+
-| ''Italians: The Mayor of Montemilone''+
-| The politics of a small Italian town and its communist mayor, Dino Labriola.+
-| +
-| BBC One, 26 October 1984+
-|+
-|-+
-| 1984+
-| ''The Cost of Treachery''+
-| The [[Albanian Subversion]], in which the [[CIA]] and [[MI6]] attempted to overthrow the Albanian government and to weaken the [[Soviet Union]] at the height of the [[Cold War]] in 1949, and the role of double agent [[Kim Philby]].+
-|+
-| BBC One, 30 October 1984+
-|+
-|-+
-| 1987+
-| ''[[40 Minutes]]: Bombay Hotel''+
-| The luxurious [[The Taj Mahal Palace Hotel|Taj Mahal Palace Hotel]] in [[Mumbai]], contrasted with the poverty of the city's slums.+
-|+
-| BBC Two, 30 April 1987+
-|+
-|-+
-| 1988+
-| ''An Ocean Apart''+
-| The process by which the United States became involved in the [[First World War]].+
-| 7+
-| BBC One, 20 April 1988|+
-|-+
-| 1989+
-| ''40 Minutes: The Kingdom of Fun''+
-| Documentary about the [[MetroCentre (shopping centre)|Metro Centre]] in Gateshead, developed by entrepreneur [[John Hall (businessman)|John Hall]]. It compares Hall's plans to regenerate [[North East England]] with those of Labour politician [[T. Dan Smith]].+
-|+
-| BBC Two, 19 January 1989+
-|+
-|-+
-| 1989+
-| ''[[Inside Story: The Road to Terror]]''+
-| How the [[Iranian Revolution]] turned from idealism to terror, drawing parallels with the [[French Revolution]] two hundred years earlier.+
-|+
-| BBC One, 14 June 1989+
-|+
-|-+
-| 1992+
-| ''[[Pandora's Box (television documentary series)|Pandora's Box]]''+
-| The dangers of [[technocracy (bureaucratic)|technocratic]] and political [[rationality]].+
-| 6+
-| BBC Two, 11 June 1992+
-| Originality and Best Factual Series, [[British Academy Television Awards|BAFTA Awards]] 1993+
-|-+
-| 1995+
-| ''[[The Living Dead (television documentary series)|The Living Dead]]''+
-| The different ways that history and [[memory]] (both national and individual) have been used and manipulated by politicians and others.+
-| 3+
-| BBC Two, 30 May 1995+
-|+
-|-+
-| 1996+
-| ''[[Inside Story Special: £830,000,000 - Nick Leeson and the Fall of the House of Barings]]''+
-| [[Nick Leeson]] and the collapse of [[Barings Bank]].+
-|+
-| BBC One, 12 June 1996+
-|+
-|-+
-| 1997+
-| ''Modern Times: The Way of All Flesh''+
-| The story, dating back to the 1950s, of the search for a cure to cancer, and the impact of [[Henrietta Lacks]], the "woman who will never die" because her cells never stopped reproducing.+
-|+
-| BBC Two, 19 March 1997+
-|+
-|-+
-| 1999+
-| ''[[The Mayfair Set]]''+
-| Looks at the birth of the global [[arms industry|arms trade]], the invention of [[asset stripping]], and how buccaneer capitalists shaped the [[Margaret Thatcher|Thatcher]] years, focusing on the rise of Colonel [[David Stirling]], [[Jim Slater (accountant)|Jim Slater]], [[James Goldsmith|Sir James Goldsmith]] and [[Tiny Rowland]]—members of the elite [[Clermont Set|Clermont Club]] in the 1960s.+
-| 4+
-| BBC Two, 18 July 1999+
-|-+
-| 2002+
-| ''[[The Century of the Self]]''+
-| How [[Freud]]'s theories on the unconscious led to the development of [[public relations]] by his nephew [[Edward Bernays]]; the use of desire over need; and [[self-actualisation]] as a means of achieving economic growth and the political control of populations.+
-| 4+
-| BBC Two, 17 March 2002; art-house cinemas in the US+
-| Best Documentary Series, [[Broadcast (magazine)|Broadcast Awards]]; Historical Film of the Year, [[Longman-History Today Awards]]; Nominated for Best Documentary Series, [[Royal Television Society]]+
-|-+
-| 2004+
-| ''[[The Power of Nightmares]]''+
-| Suggests a parallel between the rise of [[Islamism]] in the Arab world and [[neoconservatism]] in the United States, and their mutual need, argues Curtis, to create the myth of a dangerous enemy to gain support.+
-| 3+
-| BBC Two, 20 October 2004+
-| Best Factual Series or Strand, BAFTA Awards 2005+
-|-+
-| 2007+
-| ''[[The Trap (television documentary series)|The Trap: What Happened to our Dream of Freedom]]''+
-| Explores the modern concept of [[Political freedom|freedom]], specifically, "how a simplistic model of human beings as self-seeking, almost robotic, creatures led to today's idea of freedom".+
-| 3+
-| BBC Two, 7 March 2007+
-|+
-|-+
-| 2007+
-| ''The Rise and Fall of the TV Journalist''+
-| Short film chronicling the transformation of [[mainstream media]] and the balance of political power in the last few decades by looking at how the role of the [[broadcast journalist]] has changed since the 1950s.+
-| +
-| ''[[Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe]]'', third episode of the fourth series+
-|+
-|-+
-| 2009+
-| ''Oh Dearism''+
-| Short film about how mainstream media simplify complex events and present them as "scattered terrible things happening everywhere, Oh Dear", leaving the public feeling powerless to do anything about them.+
-| +
-| ''[[Charlie Brooker's Newswipe]]'', third episode of the first series+
-|+
-|-+
-| 2009+
-| ''[[It Felt Like a Kiss]]''+
-| Collaboration with theatre company [[Punchdrunk]] and [[Damon Albarn]].+
-| +
-|[[Manchester International Festival]]+
-|+
-|-+
-| 2010+
-| ''Paranoia and Moral Panics''+
-| Short film using the [[paranoia]] of [[Richard Nixon]] to explore how a similar outlook on life has been propagated on a larger social scale in the [[new media]] age and the resulting [[moral panics]] and immobilisation of politics.+
-| +
-| ''Charlie Brooker's Newswipe'', fourth episode of the second series+
-|+
-|-+
-| 2011+
-| ''[[All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (TV series)|All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace]]''+
-| Argues that computers have failed to liberate humanity, and instead have "distorted and simplified our view of the world around us". The title is taken from a 1967 poem of the same name by [[Richard Brautigan]].+
-| 3+
-| BBC Two, 23 May 2011+
-|+
-|-+
-| 2011+
-| ''Every Day is Like Sunday''+
-| The rise and fall of press baron [[Cecil Harmsworth King|Cecil King]], and the changing relationship between the public, politics and the media.+
-| +
-| His personal blog. (This is not an officially released documentary but "a rough cut".)+
-|+
-|-+
-| 2013+
-| ''Everything is Going According to Plan (Massive Attack v Adam Curtis)''+
-| Collaboration with [[Massive Attack]]. Based on technocrats and global corporations establishing an ultraconservative norm, with the internet providing a "fake, enchanting world, which has become a kind of prison".+
-| +
-| Manchester International Festival+
-| +
-|-+
-| 2014+
-| ''Oh Dearism II''+
-| Short film examining the global events of 2014 to reveal a chaotic morass, the reporting of which is increasingly difficult to comprehend in the context of the [[24-hour news cycle]] and the internet.+
-| +
-| ''[[Charlie Brooker's Newswipe|Charlie Brooker's 2014 Wipe]]'', 30 December 2014+
-| +
-|-+
-| 2015+
-| ''[[Bitter Lake (film)|Bitter Lake]]''+
-| How Western leaders' simplistic "good" vs. "evil" narrative has failed in the complex post-war era, and how many [[Islamic terrorism|Islamic terrorist groups]] have their origins in the US's long-standing alliance with Saudi Arabia.+
-| +
-| [[BBC iPlayer]], 25 January 2015+
-|+
-|-+
-|2016+
-| ''[[Living in an Unreal World]]''+
-| Short film for [[VICE Media]] about the illusion of stability, freedom, and prosperity in [[Western world|the West]], comparing it to life in the [[Soviet Union]] during the 1970s.+
-|+
-| [[Facebook]], 15 October 2016+
-| +
-|-+
-| 2016+
-| ''[[HyperNormalisation (film)|HyperNormalisation]]''+
-| "How we got to this strange time of great uncertainty and confusion where those who are supposed to be in power are paralysed and have no idea what to do".+
-| +
-| BBC iPlayer, 16 October 2016+
-| +
-|}+
- +
-==See also==+
-*[[Fatalism]]+
-*[[Pessimism]]+
-*[[Nihilism]]+
-*[[Vast right-wing conspiracy]]+
-*[[Necessary Illusions]]+
-*[[Culture of fear]]+
-*[[The Californian Ideology]]+
-*[[Cyber-utopianism]]+
-*[[Individualism]]+
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Left-libertarianism (or left-wing libertarianism) names several related but distinct approaches to political and social theory, which stresses both individual freedom and social equality.

In its classical usage, left-libertarianism is a synonym for anti-authoritarian varieties of left-wing politics, i.e. libertarian socialism, which includes anarchism and libertarian Marxism, among others. Left-libertarianism can also refer to political positions associated with academic philosophers Hillel Steiner, Philippe Van Parijs and Peter Vallentyne that combine self-ownership with an egalitarian approach to natural resources.

Left-libertarians, while maintaining full respect for personal property, are skeptical of or fully against private property, arguing that neither claiming nor mixing one's labor with natural resources is enough to generate full private property rights and maintain that natural resources (land, oil, gold, vegetation) should be held in an egalitarian manner, either unowned or owned collectively. Those left-libertarians who support private property do so under the condition that recompense is offered to the local community. Many left-libertarian schools of thought are communist, advocating the eventual replacement of money with labor vouchers or decentralized planning.

On the other hand, left-wing market anarchism, which includes Pierre-Joseph Proudhon's mutualism and Samuel Edward Konkin III's agorism, appeals to left-wing concerns such as egalitarianism, gender and sexuality, class, immigration and environmentalism within the paradigm of a socialist free market. In the U.S., the word "libertarian" has become associated with right-libertarianism after Murray Rothbard and Karl Hess reached out to the New Left in the 1960s. However, until then political usage of the word was associated exclusively with anti-capitalism and in most parts of the world such an association still predominates.

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