Aftermath of a crisis (Bregtje van der Haak, VPRO Backlight 2011)

Shortly after the beginning of the financial crisis of 2008 sociologist Manuel Castells gathered a small group of international topintellectuals to ponder the crisis. While the crisis expanded, Castells named his group 'The Aftermath Network', a reference to the new world which according to him will emerge from the ashes of the crisis.

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[Sbep Sbepocah]

Can some1 tell me whats the name of the song used at the end of the documentary, god bless to whoever helps out...

[LD RBE]

This was purposefully engineered by the Banking Plutocracy. Anyone who trusts a Bank is naive. People need to start to gain Autonomy-refuse to pay their debt. Its been a blatant piece of corruption-the politicians are the Bankers puppets.Designed to take public money and put it in private hands. A National Strike is needed. Playing by their rules will just continue with the enslavement. All out Revolution is needed. People forming Universal Trusts, Co-operatives and alternatives to their moneys.

[LD RBE]

you are an ignorant arsehole-piss off and take your bigotry with you.

[tor1976]

LMAO. "Aftermath"... the real crisis hasn't even started yet. How many geniuses does it take to screw in a light bulb again?

[sunioj700]

nah I'm an english major. I recommend you watch a series of short documentaries by norwegian comedian Harald Eia called 'brainwash', maybe then you will see how poorly the faith/ideology-based tenants of sociology stand up to real science. /watch?v=KQ2xrnyH2wQ&feature=p­lcp thats the first one, the other 6 are on the same channel. don't worry, it isn't "corporate propaganda", you have nothing to fear from mild mannered Harald Eia!

[vabyss78]

Wow, what a mindless, pathetic slave of the system. Let me guess, you are/were a business major, in which you learned nothing but corporate propaganda and actually have the audacity to put down a real degree from some delusional platform of superiority.

You aren't superior to anyone. People that think like you are the dregs of society.

[3rdAutisticCuckoo]

So in other words, just like economics.

[sunioj700]

the problem is that they are a bunch of sociologists. "Sociology" is the most useless academic discipline, falling somewhere south of Communications and Women's Studies. any intelligent university student will discover after taking a course or two that sociology is heavily politicized, pseudo-scientific garbage and a complete waste of time. people who not only complete sociology degrees but become sociology professors have to be high on the stink of their own shit 24/7, pretentious fools

[Daniele Bianco]

who edited this thing? the music is nice but does not allow to hear what the professors have to say. It makes so annoying, continuous interruptions are a real pain!!!

[nickfl1980]

just let the crooked banks die and we continue with life.