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Adam Curtis, Vladislav Surkov, hypernormalisation and the architecture of belief.
Some people notice patterns, risks and possibilities that others miss. In this extract from Chapter 8, Chris Kempt considers how Adam Curtis’s work led him to see propaganda not only as a contest between truth and lies, but as control over the environment in which people attempt to establish what is real.
From The Hunting Party
This extract is one route into the wider argument: different minds become useful in different conditions, and uncertainty changes which forms of attention matter.