"In the 21st century, something new is emerging from artificial and natural intelligence: Man 2.0. His evolution is in our hands. DVD 1+2: "Man - Machine - Man" (Director: Basil Gelpke). At the turn of the century, we decoded the human genome. Do we therefore have the blueprint for life? Will Homo sapiens now be followed by an improved version of man, Man 2.0? DVD 3+4: "The Emigration of Thought from the Brain" (Director: Alexander Kluge). Is the intelligence that has migrated into systems and machines capable of forming a counter-world that is stronger than our heads? The question is: what can we trust? In the competition between man and things: who is the hare and who is the hedgehog?" (machine translation) -https://www.kluge-alexander.de/filmema cher/sonstige-dvd/sonstige-dvd/mensch-2-0-4-dvds.html

"In the 21st century, something new is emerging from artificial and natural intelligence: Man 2.0. His evolution is in our hands. DVD 1+2: "Man - Machine - Man" (Director: Basil Gelpke). At the turn of the century, we decoded the human genome. Do we therefore have the blueprint for life? Will Homo sapiens now be followed by an improved version of man, Man 2.0? DVD 3+4: "The Emigration of Thought from the Brain" (Director: Alexander Kluge). Is the intelligence that has migrated into systems and machines capable of forming a counter-world that is stronger than our heads? The question is: what can we trust? In the competition between man and things: who is the hare and who is the hedgehog?" (machine translation) -https://www.kluge-alexander.de/filmema cher/sonstige-dvd/sonstige-dvd/mensch-2-0-4-dvds.html

"In the 21st century, something new is emerging from artificial and natural intelligence: Man 2.0. His evolution is in our hands. DVD 1+2: "Man - Machine - Man" (Director: Basil Gelpke). At the turn of the century, we decoded the human genome. Do we therefore have the blueprint for life? Will Homo sapiens now be followed by an improved version of man, Man 2.0? DVD 3+4: "The Emigration of Thought from the Brain" (Director: Alexander Kluge). Is the intelligence that has migrated into systems and machines capable of forming a counter-world that is stronger than our heads? The question is: what can we trust? In the competition between man and things: who is the hare and who is the hedgehog?" (machine translation) -https://www.kluge-alexander.de/filmema cher/sonstige-dvd/sonstige-dvd/mensch-2-0-4-dvds.html

"In the 21st century, something new is emerging from artificial and natural intelligence: Man 2.0. His evolution is in our hands. DVD 1+2: "Man - Machine - Man" (Director: Basil Gelpke). At the turn of the century, we decoded the human genome. Do we therefore have the blueprint for life? Will Homo sapiens now be followed by an improved version of man, Man 2.0? DVD 3+4: "The Emigration of Thought from the Brain" (Director: Alexander Kluge). Is the intelligence that has migrated into systems and machines capable of forming a counter-world that is stronger than our heads? The question is: what can we trust? In the competition between man and things: who is the hare and who is the hedgehog?" (machine translation) -https://www.kluge-alexander.de/filmema cher/sonstige-dvd/sonstige-dvd/mensch-2-0-4-dvds.html

"Alexander Kluge works his way through the 'ideological antiquity', inspired by Sergei Eisenstein’s unfulfilled plan to film Marx’s 'Das Kapital'. Eisenstein’s art of montage and Marx’s critique of the trade in commodities are fundamental bases of modernity – yet we have lost touch with modernity just as we have lost touch with antiquity. What can Marx and Eisenstein tell us about our current cultural and social production, Kluge wonders, but because it’s Kluge asking, there are many answers and even more new questions." -Goethe-Institut Filmkatalog (https://www.goethe.de/)

"Over the course of 570 minutes (three DVDs), Alexander Kluge works his way through the 'ideological antiquity', inspired by Sergei Eisenstein’s unfulfilled plan to film Marx’s 'Das Kapital'. Eisenstein’s art of montage and Marx’s critique of the trade in commodities are fundamental bases of modernity – yet we have lost touch with modernity just as we have lost touch with antiquity. What can Marx and Eisenstein tell us about our current cultural and social production, Kluge wonders, but because it’s Kluge asking, there are many answers and even more new questions. ...

(Program 3) concentrates on the “paradoxes of exchange society“. Is Karl Marx the Darwin of political economy? Poet Durs Grünbein comments on Brecht’s rendering of “The Communist Manifesto” in hexameter verse and musician and entertainer Helge Schneider plays the role of a reading worker. Kluge alternates these with apocryphal film scenes from the ideological antiquity, such as the industrial opera “Machinist Hopkins” from 1929." -Goethe-Institut Filmkatalog (https://www.goethe.de/)

"Over the course of 570 minutes (three DVDs), Alexander Kluge works his way through the 'ideological antiquity', inspired by Sergei Eisenstein’s unfulfilled plan to film Marx’s 'Das Kapital'. Eisenstein’s art of montage and Marx’s critique of the trade in commodities are fundamental bases of modernity – yet we have lost touch with modernity just as we have lost touch with antiquity. What can Marx and Eisenstein tell us about our current cultural and social production, Kluge wonders, but because it’s Kluge asking, there are many answers and even more new questions. ...

(Program 2) focuses on Marx’s notion of commodity fetishism. Philosophers Peter Sloterdijk and Oskar Negt as well as others reflect on the magic power that commodities have over us." -Goethe-Institut Filmkatalog (https://www.goethe.de/)

"Over the course of 570 minutes (three DVDs), Alexander Kluge works his way through the 'ideological antiquity', inspired by Sergei Eisenstein’s unfulfilled plan to film Marx’s 'Das Kapital'. Eisenstein’s art of montage and Marx’s critique of the trade in commodities are fundamental bases of modernity – yet we have lost touch with modernity just as we have lost touch with antiquity. What can Marx and Eisenstein tell us about our current cultural and social production, Kluge wonders, but because it’s Kluge asking, there are many answers and even more new questions. ...

(Program 2) focuses on Marx’s notion of commodity fetishism. Philosophers Peter Sloterdijk and Oskar Negt as well as others reflect on the magic power that commodities have over us." -Goethe-Institut Filmkatalog (https://www.goethe.de/)

"Over the course of 570 minutes (three DVDs), Alexander Kluge works his way through the 'ideological antiquity', inspired by Sergei Eisenstein’s unfulfilled plan to film Marx’s 'Das Kapital'. Eisenstein’s art of montage and Marx’s critique of the trade in commodities are fundamental bases of modernity – yet we have lost touch with modernity just as we have lost touch with antiquity. What can Marx and Eisenstein tell us about our current cultural and social production, Kluge wonders, but because it’s Kluge asking, there are many answers and even more new questions. ...

(Program 1) presents extracts from Eisenstein’s working notes, Marx’s texts are read, sung and staged, and intellectuals such as German authors Hans Magnus Enzensberger and Dietmar Dath discuss their relationship with money." -Goethe-Institut Filmkatalog (https://www.goethe.de/)