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I admit I just recently learned about Curtis (I am not a native English speaker) but the ideas of his documentaries seem fascinating, so I am planing to watch s
by cambalache 6y ago
I admit I just recently learned about Curtis (I am not a native English speaker) but the ideas of his documentaries seem fascinating, so I am planing to watch some of them. Now, my question is, What books would you consider in the same style? By that I mean content not form.
- bmitc 6y agoOthers that cover these sort of system connections that I can think of are David Graeber and Noam Chomsky.
- rusk 6y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gulf_War_Did_Not_Take_Place https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gulf_War_Did_Not_Take_Pl...
- jazzyjackson 6y agoI'm not 100% sure of the overlap except for the cynicism, but I'm a fan of Franco "Bifo" Berardi and his book "Futurability: The Age of Impotence and the Horizon of Possibility' He takes a broad look at the change in motivation, the pyschological effects of believing we have no power over what happens in the future, a kind of answer to Curtis's "Hypernormalization" that explores how we thought we were in power, that we could rationalize outcomes, but in fact the world will always throw a wrench in your plans, and maybe there's no way to keep the world under control Franco doesn't see this as a reason to be nihilistic, but outlines how nihilism became a common response to the global financial and political trends. This one isn't a book but a written piece by Curtis in 2014, detailing one way the automated financial markets are an effort to keep things stable: https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/entries/78691781-c9b7-30a0-9a0a-3ff76e8bfe58 https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/entries/78691781-c9b7...