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Adam curtis - Can't get you out of my head ( 8.5 Imdb ) BBC documentary.
#Documentary #documentaries #capitalism #war #usa #america #middleeast #russia #uk #economy #movies, #bigtech #adamcurtis #ai #imdb #bbc
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13973190/
Watch it.

#Hypernormalisation | Full #Documentary | #AdamCurtis #yt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gr7T07WfIhM

#adamcurtis voice narrated #asmr
would love to hear that 🤔 🤣 #rofl

HyperNormalisation (2016) by Adam Curtis dissects how leaders, financiers and tech utopians built a comforting fake reality that masks chaos beneath the surface 🌐📺 A must-watch for anyone tracking modern power and media narratives:
https://archive.org/details/hyper-normalisation-2016-subs-by-adam-curtis-a-different-experience-of-realit
#HyperNormalisation #AdamCurtis
​#Documentary

@worik
> the candle here is the use of quota, not the use of AI

I take your point, but in this case (and many others) the one is clearly driven by the other. It's technocracy on generative steroids. Exactly the kind of thing Adam Curtis focused on in one of his best TV series; The Trap: What Happened to Our Dreams of Freedom (2007).

Here's the full series as one 3 hour video;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbdRAIpH_I4

#documentary #AdamCurtis #TheTrap #technocracy

this footage of US Ambassador Mike Huckabee's cover band turning "Sweet Home Alabama" into "Sweet Home Yerushalaym" at a #Hatzalah benefit concert in #Jerusalem really has to be seen to be believed

https://x.com/adamcurtisbroll/status/1978068552440553712

#AdamCurtis #israel #Uspol #uspolitics #Gaza #Arkansas #akpol #arpol #LynyrdSkynyrd #SweetHomeAlabama #MikeHuckabee #huckabee #christianNationalism

interesting conversation about #theStateWeAreIn with #AdamCurtis & his film #shifty

#press #news #media #analysis
https://youtu.be/kZYnNII6fco?

Adam Curtisin Hypernormalisaatio herätti ajatuksia.

"Vasemmistokin haluaa olla fluidi, kuinka vapauttavaa. Curtis kuvaa kuinka politiikan hiipuminen kylmän sodan tuhoa manageroivaan hallintaan sai vasemmiston vetäytymään itseensä. Joukkokamppailut sammuivat ja totuutta vetäydyttiin etsimään LSD:n siivittämänä itsestä. Pysyvä turva joka ei koskaan muutu. Itse. Sammalpeti johon tuudittautua hallitsemattomien uhkien maailmassa. Pakopaikka maailmasta jota ei voinut hallita poliittisin kamppailuin. Itse. Sitä kykeni vielä hallitsemaan, muka, ja kysymään loputtomana mantrana, mikä minua vaivaa.

Trump ja Putin antoivat vasemmistolle vastauksen..."

Sammalvasemmisto, mikä sinua vaivaa:
https://sampsa.fun/blogi/2025/07/19/sammalvasemmisto-mika-sinua-vaivaa/

#vasemmisto #adamcurtis #hypernormalisation #blogi

#AdamCurtis #HyperNormalisation HD
#yt #documentary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=to72IJzQT5k

Sitting down to watch Adam Curtis's new documentary! Popcorn ready, time to get Shifty! #centuryoftheself #adamcurtis #history #documentary #neoliberalism #politics #media

@drmambobob @feinstruktur @RichardJMurphy

But is this perhaps now all moot given #Blackrock et al no longer using economic equations but relying on llm models?

cf #AdamCurtis from #Hypernormalization … https://youtu.be/YF3e2Jhse4Q?si=wd_RcorNnAXInKRN

@drmambobob @feinstruktur @RichardJMurphy

But is this perhaps now all moot given #Blackrock et al no longer using economic equations but relying on llm models?

cf #AdamCurtis from #Hypernormalization … https://youtu.be/YF3e2Jhse4Q?si=wd_RcorNnAXInKRN

@drmambobob @feinstruktur @RichardJMurphy

But is this perhaps now all moot given #Blackrock et al no longer using economic equations but relying on llm models?

cf #AdamCurtis from #Hypernormalization … https://youtu.be/YF3e2Jhse4Q?si=wd_RcorNnAXInKRN

@drmambobob @feinstruktur @RichardJMurphy

But is this perhaps now all moot given #Blackrock et al no longer using economic equations but relying on llm models?

cf #AdamCurtis from #Hypernormalization … https://youtu.be/YF3e2Jhse4Q?si=wd_RcorNnAXInKRN

@drmambobob @feinstruktur @RichardJMurphy

But is this perhaps now all moot given #Blackrock et al no longer using economic equations but relying on llm models?

cf #AdamCurtis from #Hypernormalization … https://youtu.be/YF3e2Jhse4Q?si=wd_RcorNnAXInKRN

"#TheWay taps into the social and political chaos of today’s world by imagining a civil uprising which begins in a small industrial town. Fleeing unrest, The Driscolls are forced to escape the country they’ve always called home and the certainties of their old lives."

#BBC #MichaelSheen, #JamesGraham #AdamCurtis
https://www.bbc.com/mediacentre/2023/the-way-first-look-images

An absolutely brilliant expose of the symbiotic rise of Islamist extremism and the American Neo-Con movement. In three parts. the second and third in comments. #Documentary #IslamistExtremism #Neocon #911 #BBC #AdamCurtis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxBbw13Y3Gc&ab_channel=AdamCurtisDocumentaries

@Lazarou

What little I know of that silly bugger I don't like.

There's a #documentary series by #AdamCurtis called #CenturyOfTheSelf which I found on Youtube and that's where I found out about that idiot.

The myth of self-regulating systems

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2011/may/29/adam-curtis-ecosystems-tansley-smuts
#AdamCurtis #selfregulatingsystems #ecosystem #Holism #badsciencethatsticks

"It’s a tale of civil war and family strife, a series that installs a militarised hard border between England and Wales and effectively turns all the Celts into outlaws. It used to be that people visited border town Hay-on-Wye to buy books. Now they come seeking shelter and a secret route into England."

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2024/feb/02/destroying-your-home-town-is-quite-satisfying-inside-michael-sheens-explosive-welsh-revolution-thriller

#MichaelSheen #AdamCurtis #PortTalbot #TheWay #BBCDrama

@strypey
Yes, the escalatory nature of #USA foreign policy seems to go back quite far, and we see it repeated over and over because it serves the #weaponsIndustry

Adam Curtis' documentary, #Hypernormalisation (which we don't agree with the innuendo aimed at Russia in) seemed to put a lot of the blame on #HenryKissinger, which is probably correct, but we wonder if every president since #JFK has been a meat puppet.

#AdamCurtis #documentary

Shouting to the abyss that an episode of #AdamCurtis’s 2007 #BBC documentary, “The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom,” called “We Will Force You To Be Free,” is about #FrantzFanon and how we’ve been conditioned to reject attempts at what #IsaiahBerlin called “Positive Freedom.” Very relevant. Again. Say what you will but Curtis’s documentaries hold up.

I won’t post a link but one can easily find it at that site I’m not posting the link to.

#Gaza #Palestine #Freedom

@KeithDJohnson
Yes, we cottoned onto this many years ago, most #philanthropy is #fauxlanthropy.

A brilliant documentary on how #thePeople have been systematically transitioned from being an active '#citizen' to a docile '#consumer' is The Century Of The Self (#AdamCurtis/BBC, 2002).

It cover a suite of propaganda techniques used to #engineerConsent for all manner of abuse by large #corporations.

oggi che commemoriamo #stragediBologna e il grumo di segreti che vedono coinvolti #ServiziSegreti e apparati dello Stato italiano, c'è un articolo speciale che vi consiglio: il bravissimo #AdamCurtis sui #ServiziSegreti(inglese):

https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/entries/3662a707-0af9-3149-963f-47bea720b460

Adam Curtis - TraumaZone Russia 1985 to 1999
Playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSjQL8MYniTTLA3wnZ25U-s6RgR4uJNvL

More information:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia_1985%E2%80%931999:_TraumaZone

"Using stock footage shot by the BBC, the series chronicles the collapse of the Soviet Union, the rise of capitalist Russia and its oligarchs, and the effects of this on Russian people of all levels of society, leading to the rise to power of Vladimir Putin."

#SovietUnion #Russia #History #Communism #Capitalism #ShockTherapy #AdamCurtis

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Hello w̶o̶r̶l̶d̶ Set-of-interconnected-self-actualising-machines!

I intend this to be somewhat of an introduction, although I do realise that it would constitute a rather bizarre greeting in real life. This won't be a personal account, by that I mean I don't intend to post personal content (i.e. about my real world identity). This isn't really for anonymity, despite admittedly being quite a shy person, I think it's more to do with not wanting to attempt a serious explanation of my context, something which I doubt is achievable through this medium. For me underrepresentation is better than misrepresentation, although I understand if people find my presentation here dishonest or unaccountable.

I'll use this account partly for listening, a sampling spoon through which to experience the soup of conversation and thought. I'll also do some tooting, I like this word, I might have said contributing, tossing new, or maybe reused, ingredients into the soup, but that gives the impression, I think, of some final objective, an endpoint. Most likely, listening will be the larger of these two parts, and at least for the short term, both parts, the whole, will occupy very little of my time. Expect sporadicity and inconsistency!

I also wanted to say something about what I am interested in, this is difficult since if I just say a lot of words then what is there to relate my meaning, my intentions, to the meaning which you understand? "Language disguises thought" - Wittgenstein. Well after much deliberation and many sleepless nights I decided to... just say a lot of words, although do bear in mind that the following list is just that, merely a collection of words that I, at the time of writing, happened to perceive as having meanings that corresponded, perhaps imperfectly, to topics that I am interested in. Interested does not necessarily mean fully-endorse/believe/would-describe-myself-as/is-knowledgeable-about.

#philosophy #absurdism #existentialism #anarchism #communism #anticapitalism #mutualaid #prefiguration #ontology #phenomenology #poststructuralism #structuralism #mathematics #chaos #topology #imagination #art #education #linguistics #literature #music #machines #networks #cybernetics #systems #sustainability #ecology #technology #sciencefiction #utopia #DavidGraeber #DavidWengrow #MurrayBookchin #NoamChomsky #PeterKropotkin #AdamCurtis #KenLoach #AlbertCamus #GillesDeleuze #JacquesDerrida #JeanPaulSartre #MarkFisher #SimoneDeBeauvoir #FranzKafka #GeorgeOrwell #PercyByssheShelley #MaryShelley #UrsulaKLeGuin

@atyh
@gabriel
We had to unboost due to #theBlackVault link (CloudFlare alarm went off), but yes this are the types of sociopaths humans need to deal with, and they are indeed all over the place.

That #RobertMaxwell (ie. #GhislaneMaxwell's father) issue with #PROMIS/#PRISM, is just the tip of the iceberg.

A good #documentary on this if you can stomach the MiddleEast narrative is #AdamCurtis' 2016 film, #HyperNormalisation, showing how #banks are there own #dragnet. Also informative…1/2

@augustus
^^^ This. But the websites are often not as "Russian" as you might think. *coughflare*

Some people use #VPNs, but they seem redundant/questionable. Tor and #torrenting over #I2P is a preference of ours these days.

(As an aside, we can't speak for the BBC productions recently but we like to mention an #AdamCurtis documentary produced mostly pre-911, titled #TheCenturyOfTheSelf (4x 1 hr episodes) and available on invidious instances via:

INVIDIOUS_URL/watch?v=DnPmg0R1M04
)

@witchescauldron @hamishcampbell
The best documentary we've seen on #postmodernism and much more is the #TheCenturyOfTheSelf by #AdamCurtis (#BBC 2002).

Its four one-hour episodes but its highly detailed and entertaining. It should be required viewing for high-school #historyClasses. Teens will no doubt get a #laugh from the constant references to 'deep, primitive #sexual urges', haha.

Seriously though, it features many topics for further #study:
https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=DnPmg0R1M04

@Stoori Recognising the fascistic tendency or potential of communications modes and media formats is actually precisely what I'm encouraging here.

It's not that "all memes are fascist".

But you'll find that very nearly all fascists uses memes.

I'm reminded of the parallel with a famous observation of John Stuart Mill on stupidity and conservatives:

I did not mean that Conservatives are generally stupid; I meant, that stupid persons are generally Conservative. I believe that to be so obvious and undeniable a fact that I hardly think any hon. Gentleman will question it.

https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/23qdkr/john_stuart_mill_i_did_not_mean_that/

http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1866/may/31/committee-adjourned-debate#column_1592

My view (supported by the work of Arendt, Paxton, Eco, MacDonald, and others) is that fascism is a behavioural mode, not an ideologial one, one that tends to be highly emotive, low-information, and reactionary. It probably emerges in times of high social and political stress.

Knowing that, and being aware of the risks and signs is valuable.

Yes, fascism wears ideological trappings, but those serve its behaviours and not the other way 'round. The specific ideologies claimed are fluid and flexible and inconsistent both internally and over time.

See the commentary on this post:
https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/6wuenu/is_politics_truly_ideological_or_is_this_a_20th/

@steko @zatnosk

#fascism #ideology #HannaArendt #FrankfurtSchool #Memes #MemeticWarfare #RobertPaxton #UmbertoEco #DwightMacDonald #MarshallMcLuhan #AdamCurtis #CenturyOfTheSelf #NoamChomsky

If you are interested in learning more about the corporate #baitAndSwitch in the rebellious 1960s and 70s, check out the #AdamCurtis documentary series, #TheCenturyOfTheSelf.

Its very revealing.

Vous vous souvenez peut-être du documentaire #Hypernormalisation, rapidement culte il y a quatre ans et réalisé comme chacun des films du réalisateur uniquement par des footages très divers et une voix off. On peut discuter les thèses avancées, mais c'est au moins intéressant dans les rapports entre images, réel, mythe et fiction.
Un nouveau documentaire de #AdamCurtis est sorti il y a une dizaine de jours (et c’est au moins aussi bien qu’une série de la BBC). "'Can't Get You Out of My Head: An Emotional History of the Modern World' is a six-part BBC documentary television series [...] It attempts to explain how " #modernsociety has arrived at where it is today by tracing various topics such as, 'the strange roots of modern #conspiracytheories, the history of #China, #opium and #opioids, [and] the history of #ArtificialIntelligence'."
Je n'ai pas encore tout vu mais c'est déjà super.
Part 1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bud9zF8e1zU - Bloodshed on Wolf Mountain
Part 2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GeDN9Jw4E0 - Shooting and F**king are the Same Thing
Part 3 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmTzGcDboME - Money Changes Everything
Part 4 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vrqGlGnBUg - But What if the People are Stupid
Part 5 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AI2lRVifwg - The Lordly Ones
Part 6 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_XdqHP5EUg - Are we Pidgeon or are we Dancer

@witchescauldron
The original article shared above spoke poorly of RT.

That's why we started talking about it in brackets.

The above is a good video. Why these people don't use #CorporateTotalitarianism, #CorporateFascism or simply #Corporatism is an oversight.

We will need to watch the other four in the series.

The film, #Obey (2013) does a great job.

Also #TheCenturyOfTheSelf by filmmaker #AdamCurtis, highlights how the citizen was manipulated into a #consumer using various…1/2

@zzz
The 4-part #documentary series by #AdamCurtis, #TheCenturyOfTheSelf, is very good at showing how we've been conditioned from #citizen to #consumer with so-called #infinateNeeds. See our previous hashtagged post for the link.

#PlanetOfTheHumans shows the #WallStreet side of #greenWashing. See "PlayStation 2 Wars" articles also.

See rare articles in TheGuardian about the #sandMafia that underpins the #upNotOut #highrise #overdevelopment and the moguls like #Trump, they produce.
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@liaizon

Your step-by-step guide to #propaganda and #electionRigging, and how it continues to be done, courtesy of the venerable #AdamCurtis.

The Century Of The Self:
https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=DnPmg0R1M04

#electionRigging #USElection #BBC #edwardBernays #sigmundFreud #engineeringOfConsent #militarism #childAbuse #junkFood #rupertMurdoch #publicRelations #memes #television #programming #surveillance #stockMarkets #centralBanking #robertReich #smoking #war #okayBoomer #babyboomer #democracy

Your step-by-step guide to #propaganda and #electionRigging, and continues to be done, courtesy of the venerable #AdamCurtis.

The Century Of The Self:
https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=DnPmg0R1M04

#electionRigging #USElection #BBC #edwardBernays #sigmundFreud #engineeringOfConsent #militarism #childAbuse #junkFood #rupertMurdoch #publicRelations #memes #newspaper #television #programming #surveillance #stockMarkets #centralBanking #robertReich #smoking #war #okayBoomer #babyboomer #democracy

@dredmorbius
All great points. #RichardStallman talked about the dangerous trend towards #plutocracy recently on an interview he gave on #RT.

The part about the #swingVoter is true. The #powerElite have refined tactics to understanding the swing voter so they can #manipulate them. Some of the #psychological techniques are covered in the fourth and final episode in #AdamCurtis' series, titled #TheCenturyOfTheSelf (2002, #BBC).
@pluralistic

@strypey
The 90's was when the "#democrats" and "#labour" parties started abusing #surveys to profile #swingvoters in earnest.

Its been a veritable shitshow ever since.

(Source: #TheCenturyOfTheSelf, 2002, #AdamCurtis, 3h59m)

#neoliberalism #powerElite #stenographersOfPower #culturalElite #rupertMurdoch #massMedia #television #manufacturingOfConsent

@inherit_indigo

In light of these reflections (pun intended), this came to mind: https://thoughtmaybe.com/the-century-of-the-self/ #TheCenturyOfTheSelf #AdamCurtis #2002

#Enjoy!

@inherit_indigo

In light of these reflections (pun intended), this came to mind: https://thoughtmaybe.com/the-century-of-the-self/ #TheCenturyOfTheSelf #AdamCurtis #2002

#Enjoy!

As #AdamCurtis pointed out in his doco series #TheTrap, when governments create metrics to measure the success of their policies, the danger is that managers will meet those metrics by any means necessary, regardless of whether that has anything to do with meeting the underlying goals of the policy:
https://aus.social/@shlee/102467293709275626

In his opening monologue, #DougRushkoff says the 3 part documentary series #OperationInfektion is as significant as the #AdamCurtis series 'Century of the Self', which is high praise IMHO;
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/12/opinion/russia-meddling-disinformation-fake-news-elections.html