‘Nobody Believes in the Future Any More’: Adam Curtis and Ari Aster on How to Wake Up From the Post-Truth Nightmare
AA: Certainty has gone for ever now. With the advent of deepfake and AI-generated imagery, belief in what we’re seeing and hearing is now forever gone.
AC: Which means that the most radical thing to do is to say the only way we’re going to move forward is by bypassing all those things, movies, most popular culture, as evidence of the future. It’s a ... See more
AC: Which means that the most radical thing to do is to say the only way we’re going to move forward is by bypassing all those things, movies, most popular culture, as evidence of the future. It’s a ... See more
Paul MacInnes • ‘Nobody Believes in the Future Any More’: Adam Curtis and Ari Aster on How to Wake Up From the Post-Truth Nightmare
There’s a feedback loop of nostalgia. Not just nostalgia and trauma. We’re always looking back into the past to see why we are here right now. “Oh, it’s because this happened to me.” As opposed to – and this is what you’ve been talking about for ever – where is the new idea? Where is our vision of the future? Because nobody believes in the future a... See more