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Adam Curtis Cancels the Future
Curtis’s new BBC series,
Can’t Get You Out of My Head, depicts the repetitive bleakness of individualism, but how can we collectively envision an alternative?
The primary thesis in Adam Curtis’s latest six-part BBC series,
Can’t Get You Out of My Head (2021), seems to be that individualism has become an undemocratic force. Across eight hours, Curtis focuses on different revolutionary figures and those proximate to power, including Mao Zedong’s fourth wife, Jiang Qing, and Black Panther Party activist, Afeni Shakur. He explores psychology theory and the psyche of isolation that festers in the suburbs to create a dizzying picture of how we have arrived at such a narcissistic moment in time.