August 25, 2021

Special Edition: "Can't Get You Out of My Head"

This BBC series was so amazing I could not wait until the next newsletter to share. . .

“Can’t Get You Out of My Head”

(BBC—Feb 2021)

Adam Curtis is a documentary filmmaker whose distinctive presentation uses collage to explore aspects of sociology, psychology, philosophy and political history.

Binge-watching doesn’t happen here in our living / screening room — but we watched all six episodes of this BBC series in one week. I cannot recommend it enough. Each episode building upon the previous one. Enlightening. Uncomfortable. It is that good!

You can read a brief description and watch all six episodes here, free. You will be richly rewarded.

Can’t Get You Out of My Head

Can’t Get You Out of My Head: An Emotional History of the Modern World is a six-part series that explores how modern society has arrived to the strange place it is today. The series traverses themes of love, power, money, corruption, the ghosts of empire, the history of China, opium and opioids, the strange roots of modern conspiracy theories, and the history of Artificial Intelligence and surveillance. The series deals with the rise of individualism and populism throughout history, and the failures of a wide range of resistance movements throughout time and various countries, pointing to how revolution has been subsumed in various ways by spectacle and culture, because of the way power has been forgotten or given away.

Here also is a supeb review of the series from The Guardian.

Can’t Get You Out of My Head review – Adam Curtis’s ‘emotional history’ is dazzling | Television | The Guardian

Examining the power structures and political intrigue that have shaped our world, the filmmaker’s new BBC documentary series is a dense, ambitious triumph

If you do watch it, drop a line and let me know what you think.

As B/4,

AleXander