[PREVIEW] Damaged Life: Adam Curtis’s Emotional History

Last week Adam Curtis released a new 6-part film series, Can't Get You Out Of My Head: An Emotional History of the Modern World. In this discussion, Amogh, Malek, and Matt begin to unpack and respond to the series, asking what Curtis means in aiming to provide an “emotional” history? What are the subterranean forces that animate ideological/social/political movements and their figure-heads? What does it mean to rid ourselves of the past, and is that even possible? How does Curtis’s novelistic approach serve or confuse our understanding of the ambitious historical and political claims of his work, and what if any are the lessons to be taken away? Does Curtis think that all revolutionary movements are doomed to fail? Are these failures written into the movements from the start, or are they the result of the machinations of external powers? What is the idea of ‘power’ that he constantly invokes and where does it lie?--“Can't Get You Out Of My Head: An Emotional History of the Modern World”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thd5bBUNEw8 (trailer) / https://thoughtmaybe.com/cant-get-you-out-of-my-head/ (series)--“Charlie Brooker in Conversation with Adam Curtis”  (2021): https://www.vice.com/en/article/4ad8db/adam-curtis-charlie-brooker-cant-get-you-out-of-my-head--“Adam Curtis: Social media is a scam” - Tom Hodgkinson (2018): https://www.idler.co.uk/article/adam-curtis-social-media-is-a-scam/It's the final day of our fundraiser! Thanks again for everyone's contributions, we appreciate any and all donations to keep our volunteer-run space and project going, now in year 8. https://www.gofundme.com/f/woodbine-moving-fundraiser