For Your Consideration: HyperNormalisation

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Some super-reality from documentarian Adam Curtis to kick off your Monday morning, commentating on the falseties of modernity.

An excerpt from last night’s feature-length feature, available on BBC iPlayer for those of us using proxies.

Grab a quick tay.

Sez the Grauniad:

He argues that an army of technocrats, complacent radicals and Faustian internet entrepreneurs have conspired to create an unreal world; one whose familiar and often comforting details blind us to its total inauthenticity.

Not wishing to undersell the concept, Curtis begins the film with a shot of a torch shining limply into a thicket, so that viewers find themselves literally unable to see the wood for the trees.

There ye are now.

HyperNormalisation

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12 thoughts on “For Your Consideration: HyperNormalisation”

  1. Dough Berman

    It was full of interesting stuff, as ever, but success hasn’t been great for Curtis. The restrictions of broadcast TV forced him to make certain concessions to narrative structure that started sloughing off around It Felt Like A Kiss and are basically non-existent now. Worth a watch, but eh, just south of three hours, be warned.

    It’s also a little disconcerting to see Curtis just blithely assert that this or that aspect of modern life is ‘fake’ without really quantifying that. His pieces have always been polemical, and while I haven’t always agreed with him, up until now I’ve at least known what he meant. Really not sure what he’s trying to say.

      3. Dough Berman

        There’s a line in the Guardian review that I’m pretty sure is lifted from that piss-take.

  2. Boy M5

    Thanks for encouraging me to download Hola which doesn’t work and now won’t quit and now I cannot delete.

    Thanks for that.

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