Adam Curtis's 2016 BBC documentary HyperNormalisation, about 160 minutes long. It cuts together roughly forty years of politics, finance and technology to argue that people have retreated into a simplified fake world.
Why Hacker News points people here: Strongly and repeatedly recommended as a visually distinctive documentary and a guide to postmodern ideas on politics, truth and technology.
“he's essentially cross cut the last 40 years into a 3 hour cliff notes guide to some of the darker corners of postmodern philosophy.”HN comment, 2016
“he's essentially cross cut the last 40 years into a 3 hour cliff notes guide to some of the darker corners of postmodern philosophy.”
Condenses 40 years into a bleak guide to postmodern philosophy.
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No joke, just finished watching HyperNormalisation[1]. The most depressing part to me is that Adam Curtis isn't off on an easily dismissed tangent in this documentary, he's essentially cross cut the last 40 years into a 3 hour cliff notes guide to some of the darker corners of postmodern philosophy. Specifically, Baudrillard. His 2002 essay, The Violence of the Global[2] has some interesting food for thought: >We believe that the ideal purpose of any value is to become universal. But we do not really assess the deadly danger that such a quest presents. Far from being an uplifting move, it is instead a downward trend toward a zero degree in all values. In the Enlightenment, universalization was viewed as unlimited growth and forward progress. Today, by contrast, universalization exists by default and is expressed as a forward escape, which aims to reach the most minimally common value. This is precisely the fate of human rights, democracy, and liberty today. Their expansion is in reality their weakest expression. HyperNormalism is bleak and offers no solutions for course correcting international affairs, and there's the rub: universal solutions may not exist. For me, my mind's left reeling by the complexity of the times, leaving me at a loss for how to integrate information from sources like Baudrillard into my worldview guiding day-to-day behavior. My typical response is a hyperlocal focus on the people around me in meatspace and trying to at least get the basics right like t
Strongly recommendsalistproducer2Jan 2017
“Hypernormalisation is an awesome documentary that actually covers this subject. If you've got a couple hours to kill I highly recommend it.”
Awesome documentary covering this subject.
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Hypernormalisation is an awesome documentary that actually covers this subject. If you've got a couple hours to kill I highly recommend it. It can be watched on youtube this video
Strongly recommendsbartcobainSep 2018
“I have been looking for another documentary as visual appealing, as evolving as this one”
Visually appealing, evolving documentary unmatched by others.
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Hypernormalisation from Adam Curtis. I have been looking for another documentary as visual appealing, as evolving as this one but haven't found any other documentary. this video Do you know another documentary as good as this one?
Strongly recommendsonion2kSep 2020
“Adam Curtis is a brilliant film maker.”
Brilliant filmmaker; this and Bitter Lake worth watching.
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Adam Curtis is a brilliant film maker. "Hypernormalisation" ( this video ) and "Bitter Lake" ( link ) are well worth watching too.
RecommendskrenotenDec 2016
“There's a great documentary about this by Adam Curtis”
Adam Curtis documentary on truth under fire.
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There's a great documentary about this by Adam Curtis called [HyperNormalisation]( this video ), discussing how truth is seriously under fire right now.
Recommendsm_keNov 2020
“I recommend watching Adam Curtis' documentary called Hypernormalisation to get a sense of how badly this can get abused by political operatives.”
Shows how badly this can be abused by political operatives.
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I recommend watching Adam Curtis' documentary called Hypernormalisation to get a sense of how badly this can get abused by political operatives. Especially this clip: linkthis video
Cites itbstrandFeb 2018
“examined by Adam Curtis in his 2016 film Hypernormalisation (starting at 40m 35s)”
Examines Barlow's utopian cyberspace rhetoric starting at 40m 35s.
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It is worthwhile to consider Barlow's legacy--particularly this utopian rhetoric about cyberspace--as examined by Adam Curtis in his 2016 film Hypernormalisation (starting at 40m 35s):- this video
Cites itdghughesJul 2018
“at 1:12:00 it was mentioned Larry Fink built one of the first "supercomputers”
Mentions BlackRock's Aladdin risk system at 1:12:00.
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I was watching the documentary HyperNormalization and at 1:12:00 it was mentioned Larry Fink built one of the first "supercomputers" (at least a large system for its time). It was used for risk analysis it was built in 1986. The company was BlackRock and the computer was called Aladdin. this video
