Surrealpolitik: Surreality and the National Security State Schoneboom John
Surrealpolitik: Surreality and the National Security State Schoneboom John Our times are not just weird, but literally surreal: we live in a paranoid, increasingly authoritarian culture in which the…
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Surrealpolitik: Surreality and the National Security State Schoneboom John
Our times are not just weird, but literally surreal: we live in a paranoid, increasingly authoritarian culture in which the real, the presumed and the purported are indistinguishable strands of a dense hallucinatory web of mediated spectacles. To subject the symbolic order to a surrealist mode of inquiry is to transgress taboos, reveal biases and inconsistencies, test assumptions and investigate the extent to which the real is, like our dreams - a fungible projection of our unconscious expectations. Surrealpolitik takes up cultural theorist Mark Fisher's challenge to expose capitalist realism's 'realism' as nothing of the sort.
The nexus of dreams, hyperreality, paranoia, totalitarianism, terror, art, myth and culture is where realpolitik becomes the surrealpolitik of the