“Pull images and text from are.na to make a strangely familiar documentary critique of late capitalism.”

This is oddly satisfying. 🫠

https://mildlydiverting.github.io/are.na-toolkit/arena-hypernormalisation.html

#WeirdWideWeb #capitalism #HyperNormalisation

Are.na Hypernormalisation

Pull images and text from are.na channels and combine them into a strangely familiar documentary critique of late capitalism. Good for full-screen ambient displays, or just staring into the void.

The weather here in Ireland has been mad this week. Not to minimise the seriousness of the climate crisis, but it did give me a chance to wear my (25+ year-old) world-around-travelling shorts. I would have worn my world-around-travelling shoes (actually, a pair of flip-flops) but they got chewed up by an anxious pet dog. He was right... we should have listened.

Anyway, here's some Anohni

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fi0q0O4V5Qs

#Only4Degrees #Hypernormalisation

ANOHNI: 4 DEGREES (Official Preview)

Taken from Anohni's album 'Hopelessness', out now on Rough Trade and Secretly Canadian: http://smarturl.it/ANOHNI Buy 'Hopelessness' from:Rough Trade/Secretl...

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This week's Hold That Thought newsletter, features ideas from Adam Curtis, Dr. Nick Walker, Margaret Mead and more. This is one of my favourites:

From Autism in the Stone Age to our not-AI future…

https://insight.witten.kim/posts/the-only-thing-that-ever-has

#ai #hypernormalisation #autism #neuroqueer #everthingcrisis #holdthatThought #thoughts

The only thing that ever has

From Stone Age autism to our non-AI future, in this week's Hold That Thought newsletter

Hypernormalisation | Full Documentary | Adam Curtis

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Bisan explains the social and psychological role of the Epstein files release. More accurately and concisely than anyone else I've seen trying to articulate the same ideas.

In short, it's hypernormalisation and learned helplessness.

It makes perfect sense that a Palestinian can see their game this clearly.

#Esptein #Bisan #trauma #hypernormalisation #zionism #FreePalestine #GlobaliseTheIntifada

"He says everyone in the Soviet Union knew the system was failing, but no one could imagine any alternative to the status quo, and politicians and citizens alike were resigned to maintaining the pretense of a functioning society" #hypernormalisation en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperNo...

HyperNormalisation - Wikipedia
HyperNormalisation - Wikipedia

Living in an Unreal World A Film By Adam Curtis

We are too trapped in a system. We cannot see beyond it. But there is more out there. A short film by Adam Curtis.via VICE.

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"Church authority, oligarch patronage, Western legal advocacy, and sympathetic media platforms function as successive filters, allowing Russian state #disinformation to reach Washington stripped of its origins" #hypernormalisation via reputation laundering www.kyivpost.com/post/68182

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Why the Russian Orthodox Church Is Lobbying in Washington

A campaign framed as faith and rooted in Moscow reaches Washington to sway US Christians. But all the narratives repeat Kremlin propaganda and ignore Russian aggression.

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HyperNormalisation (2016) by Adam Curtis dissects how leaders, financiers and tech utopians built a comforting fake reality that masks chaos beneath the surface 🌐📺 A must-watch for anyone tracking modern power and media narratives:
https://archive.org/details/hyper-normalisation-2016-subs-by-adam-curtis-a-different-experience-of-realit
#HyperNormalisation #AdamCurtis
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HyperNormalisation Documentary By Adam Curtis - A Different Experience Of Reality : Adam Curtis : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Video taken from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fh2cDKyFdyUAll credits to the creator, Adam Curtis...

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