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6 unusual facts about Zeitgeist


Edwin Boring

In the last chapter of his book, Boring introduced Goethe and Johann Herder’s idea of Zeitgeist.

Mounqaliba

The album features audio clips from non-commercial film director, and activist Peter Joseph and self-educated industrial engineer and futurist Jacque Fresco through multiple tracks, as well as references to Zeitgeist: Addendum and a resource-based economy.

Post-politics

With Francis Fukuyama’s End of History as its founding statement, this was the birth of the post-political, post-ideological “Zeitgeist”.

Zeitgeist: Moving Forward

The origins of our modern economic paradigm are explored, beginning with John Locke and Adam Smith.

Zeitgeist: The Movie

In Tablet Magazine, journalist Michelle Goldberg criticized Zeitgeist: The Movie as being "steeped in far-right, isolationist, and covertly anti-Semitic conspiracy theories," and called the Zeitgeist Movement "the world's first Internet-based cult, with members who parrot the party line with cheerful, rote fidelity."

Zeitgeist: The Spirit of the Age

The package comes with a Zeitgeist bonus DVD, a download card for the instrumentals and a free mixtape.


Abdullah Çatlı

Bruce Sterling's 2000 novel Zeitgeist includes a major character ("Mehmet Ozbey") loosely based on Çatlı.

Brent Michael Davids

He has composed for Zeitgeist, the Kronos Quartet, Joffrey Ballet, the National Symphony Orchestra, and Chanticleer.

Chrome Industries

Chrome’s sponsored athletes include professional skateboarders, John Cardiel, Emmannuel Guzman, John Igei, and Bobby Worrest, as well as several cycling teams including Zeitgeist Racing Team and Team Godspeed.

Erik of het klein insectenboek

Erik of het klein insectenboek (English translation: Erik or the small book of insects) is a 2004 Dutch family film, based on the homonymous book of Godfried Bomans and co-produced with among others the Danish company Zeitgeist.

John Ortberg

Ortberg's retelling of his experience of playing Monopoly with his grandmother was used as the beginning narration of Peter Joseph's 2011 documentary Zeitgeist: Moving Forward.

Liebesschmerz

Liebesschmerz (English: Love pain) is the second single from the 1999 Schiller debut album Zeitgeist with spoken word passages by German actor and voice actor Hans Paetsch (1909–2002).

Occupy South Africa

In attendance were activists from Soweto and Thembelihle, the Democratic Left Front had a prominent presence and members of Zeitgeist and September National Imbizo/Blackwash were in attendance as well.

Roger Kleier

He has performed and/or recorded with Annie Gosfield, Marc Ribot's Shrek, Elliott Sharp, Fred Frith, Joan Jeanrenaud, Ikue Mori, Carl Stone, Laurie Anderson, Phill Niblock, Alan Licht, David Moss, Hahn Rowe, Chris Cutler, David Krakauer, Chris Brown, Zeitgeist, Relâche, Agon Orchestra, William Winant, Zeena Parkins, Stan Ridgway, Trevor Dunn, Ches Smith, and others.

The Show with No Name

Many other clips simply presented a zeitgeist gone by: a trailer for an Akira Kurosawa or Sam Peckinpah film, a Bill Hicks comedy set, or Bob Dylan appearing on the Johnny Cash show.


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