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@failureonlysubject.bsky.socialA passage on Adam Curtis’s It Felt Like a Kiss and the ways we try to become what others need, from my forthcoming book Failure Is the Only Subject.
Has a documentary ever changed how you understood your own relationships?
@janschneekloth.bsky.social''It shows that what has happened is that all of us in the West - not just the politicians and the journalists and the experts, but we ourselves - have retreated into a simplified, and often completely fake version of the world. But because it is all around us we accept it as normal.'' #AdamCurtis
@thequietus.com'Curtis is an auteur and phenomenologist of emotion, whose studies in mood and sensibility convey what it is to be a subject of history, establishing a meeting point between facts and feeling.'
Between Facts and Feeling: The #AdamCurtis Party Conference
@roundsparrow.bsky.social"where nothing really makes any #coherent sense. We live with a constant vaudeville of contradictory stories that makes it impossible for any real #opposition to emerge" "we live a state of #confusion and uncertainty. To which the response is: Oh dear. But that..." - #AdamCurtis #BBC year 2014
