All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (2011)

Notes to accompany ‘All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace’ by Adam Curtis

Episode One: ‘Love and Power’

Curtis begins with Ayn Rand:

Though her philosophy is dismissed by the academic establishment and her novels deprecated by belles-lettres critics, her ideas have wide-ranging influence. A 1991 survey by the Library of Congress and the Book-of-the-Month Club found Atlas Shrugged second only to the Bible in a list of books that…