[PREVIEW] Adam Curtis: What If the People Are Stupid?

For the third episode in our series of podcasts on Adam Curtis's Can't Get You Out of My Head: An Emotional History of the Modern World, Amogh and Matt joined The Antifada's Andy, Jamie, and Sean.We continued discussing historical storytelling and the contemporary development of a worldview. How can Curtis's diagnostic fragments transform into political overcoming? How do we situate ourselves while caught between liberalism and fascism, the human and AI, objective conditions and subjective formation, postmodernism and anti-communism, charisma and belief?The Antifada: https://www.patreon.com/theantifada--"'You could be a cult leader': Diane Morgan and Adam Curtis on Brexit, Trump and his new series" - Simon Usborne: https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2021/feb/06/you-could-be-a-cult-leader-diane-morgan-and-adam-curtis-on-brexit-trump-and-his-new-series--"Adam Curtis on Our Troubled Times, TikTok and Taking Back the Internet" - Thomas Gorton: https://www.anothermag.com/design-living/13105/adam-curtis-cant-get-you-out-of-my-head-new-documentary-series-2021--"What Does The Future Hold? An Interview With Adam Curtis" - Michael J. Brooks: https://thequietus.com/articles/29558-film-adam-curtis-cant-get-you-out-of-my-head-interview--"A Conversation with Filmmaker Adam Curtis on Power, Technology and How Ideas Get Into People's Heads" - Billy Perrigo: https://time.com/5941744/adam-curtis-cant-get-you-out-of-my-head/