Heinz von Foerster

More of a film essay - of the type pioneered by Orson Welles and Chris Marker - than a standard documentary, German filmmaker Lutz Dammbeck's The Net: The Unabomber, the LSD and the Internet begins with the typical format and structure of a nonfiction film, and a single subject (the life and times of mail bomber Ted Kaczynski). From that thematic springboard, Dammbeck branches out omnidirectionally, segueing into a series of thematic riffs and variants on such marginally-related subjects as: the history of cyberspace, terrorism, utopian ideals, LSD, the Central Intelligence Agency, and Cuckoo's Nest author Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters.

Comment l'esprit et le corps peuvent-ils coexister sous la forme d'un tout intégré? Francisco Varela, le célèbre biologiste et neuroscientifique chilien né à Monte Grande, était un figure phare dans le domaine de la science cognitive. Ces questions l'on préoccupé dès son enfance et jusqu'à sa mort, en 2001. La structure narrative du film se concentre essentiellement sur l'histoire de la vie de Varela.