Episode #7: Adam Curtis, get out of my head.
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In this ep we talk about Adam Curtis and our lack of excitement about his latest doc series, and how it’s gotten to the point that the promotional interviews he does are better than the films he’s promoting. Has Curtis gotten boring and repetitive, or are we so overwhelmed with information that his hypnotic propaganda style has lost its potency?
Towards the end Evgenia introduces the concept of “senilism” — an art idea developed by a Soviet artist after he moved to America. It’s perfect for our decaying empire and its stagnant capitalist realism. Embrace senility!
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Come here from moderate rebels. Loved this episode. I love Adam Curtis. Recommend him to all my friends and I've seen all his docs. A friend of mine pointed out that his docs do come off as anti soviet and anti governments as a whole and fall into a pitfall of thinking every gov is bad and none are doing anything right or would he ever highlight anything positive of the soivet union. Appreciate all the sources you recommended looking forward to reading Stuart Ewen.
Haven't had time to do much listening/reading in part because we had no power or heat in sub 10 degree weather for the better part of the last 72 hours, but I will give this a listen when I have a chance. Hypernormalisation was always a conundrum to me. I liked it and thought it shed a different light on the events of the past ____ years, but it never quite gelled into a cohesive game changing message for me. I'm not familiar with any of his other work, but plan to try catching up on that as well.