Started watching it and turned it off, his voice sounds like a robot.+1
finding his assured tones sounding a lot less plausible
it washes over one pleasantly with music and imagery skipping through tweaky concepts
hard to see whether its subtly indoctrinating something vague, or is just so vague you can project whatever depth you want on there
i like it now then.Started watching it and turned it off, his voice sounds like a robot.
Yeah, I think he's in a similar boat to Burial in that he has a formula he can't or won't escape from and resorts to tinkering with things like duration in an effort to keep it fresh.I’m watching this Curtis now, although distractedly. I feel kind of tired of the style at this point
It's similar to you. It's random unconnected images with a severe robot voice.i like it now then.
Some people I know are miffed at a comment he makes dismissing conspiracy theories about the JFK assassination, also a line about Biden's election meaning there's now hope in the US.+1
finding his assured tones sounding a lot less plausible
it washes over one pleasantly with music and imagery skipping through tweaky concepts
hard to see whether its subtly indoctrinating something vague, or is just so vague you can project whatever depth you want on there
It may be that there is a massive shift in sensibility going on as a result of those waves of stuff online. Stuff that, as you say, has no interest in story, and is completely narrative-free. I have always been drawn to the idea that possibly the thing you think is the most fixed and absolute in the way we see things might be the real problem. Because it is never examined. And our belief in the primacy of stories might be that. It is true that people 200, 300 ago would have thought and felt completely differently from us today. Which means that people 200 years from now may have given up on all narrative and just be experiencing selves.
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We are both charting – in very different ways – how in the age of the individual, where people were supposed to become confident and empowered, actually more and more people became uncertain and distrustful. I think it is one of the big dynamics of our time, and it comes out of the fault-line that was built into the very heart of individualism. If you are taught that the only thing you can truly trust is your own individual experience, then you find yourself increasingly helpless at understanding and judging things that are beyond your direct experience. You have no benchmark by which to measure them, because you have given up trusting the old snobby patrician class. But that then just accelerates the distrust. Out of which come all the waves of conspiracy theories.
you like him to begin with though? we all liked him until now. theres something about now that makes it seem suddenly unappealing.It's like being inside a really boring dream or being hungover. Sad robotic monotone.
Something about how he uses archive as well. And how you never see his face. The BBC had his blog up for a while, dunno if its still there, but I found reading him a lot better.