Adam Curtis

[Murphy]

Just finished it. The last one is the best and I think you’ll like it luke. I’m also thinking about how stiff sexless and unfunny it all is, very English. A very conservative nihilism if such a thing can exist. Not much fun

he’d be lost on the notion of craic

 

[sufi]

I know everyone says there’s a massive amount of information on the internet but actually, if you analyse it, there is very little. It tends to be the same thing repeated over and over again. This is something to do with Google rankings; it’s also something to do with the speed with which journalism must be done. So what you have to do is go and read books. Read really boring, old books. Among the academic rubbish, and the very badly written academic phraseology, there are really good stories.

key phrase - "if you analyse it" he's like a messianic oxbridge film buff, can't help himself

Just finished it. The last one is the best and I think you’ll like it luke. I’m also thinking about how stiff sexless and unfunny it all is, very English. A very conservative nihilism if such a thing can exist. Not much fun

i nodded off 1/2 way thru the last one, now i feel like i'm kind of saving it up like 1/2 a yummy sweet dessert in the fridge

 

[luka]

I'm not at all sure he'd be able to articulate all the things the programmes do, the suggestions they are making, the connections, the correspondences, the insinuations. It is spontaneously generated by the juxtapositions of images

 

[luka]

Which is why stupid people don't like it. They are waiting for him to explain it all, but that's not how it works.

 

[sufi]

so you walk around talking to yrself in AC voice after you watched an episode - that's how it works

Which is why stupid people don't like it. They are waiting for him to explain it all, but that's not how it works.

 

[luka]

Never heard anyone suggest he's not funny before though. I mean, there's a lot of killing and torture and that in this one, which is inherently unfunny but as a rule he definitely is funny.

 

[luka]

There's no tits though I agree with Shiels that there are no tits which a lot of people consider to be a definite shortcoming

 

[luka]

Again, none of us are willing to read so the best we can hope for is to get someone like Curtis who does read and then tells us some of the interesting things he's discovered while reading.

 

[sufi]

Again, none of us are willing to read so the best we can hope for is to get someone like Curtis who does read and then tells us some of the interesting things he's discovered while reading.

if you look at ot like that though he s very destructive, he digests all this stuff then squirts it out in a colourful muddle with no references citations footnotes etc, orphaned

 

[luka]

I think he also employs researchers to read for him

 

[sufi]

if you look at ot like that though he s very destructive, he digests all this stuff then squirts it out in a colourful muddle with no references citations footnotes etc, orphaned

like the end of the road for knowledge

 

[luka]

if you look at ot like that though he s very destructive, he digests all this stuff then squirts it out in a colourful muddle with no references citations footnotes etc, orphaned

Who is going to watch a telly program that has footnotes!

 

[shiels]

 

[sufi]

I think he also employs researchers to read for him

does he even admit that? he gets close in that idler interview, but i think that spoils his mystique somewhat

 

[sufi]

Who is going to watch a telly program that has footnotes!

look at his blog, defunct for years

 

[luka]

Yes he admits it that's how I know

 

[luka]

He's done his best. He's made brilliant telly and he's said if you lot weren't so braindead you could follow up these leads and learn something, but you won't will you, cos you're lazy, coddled nihilists.

 

[version]

I think he also employs researchers to read for him

I have a guy called Phil who goes round the world to BBC offices and copies the master tapes from the cupboard in the back office, and brings back, say, everything shot in China since 1980. I just skim through the QuickTime files really fast and say: “Oh, I like that.”

Where is Phil? Where's Phil's interview?

 

[sufi]

AC: I charge them absolutely nothing in terms of the programme budget. HyperNormalisation cost £32,000, which is nothing.

considering it took him years that doesnt get you many research bunnies

 

[sufi]

I have a guy called Phil who goes round the world to BBC offices and copies the master tapes from the cupboard in the back office, and brings back, say, everything shot in China since 1980. I just skim through the QuickTime files really fast and say: “Oh, I like that.”

Where is Phil? Where's Phil's interview?

like herzog you read the credits and realise he didnt do any of the work at all
except AC doesnt do credits, he has personal improvement quotes instead