What Comes After Farce
What Comes After Farce Surveying the artistic and cultural scene in the era of TrumpIf farce follows tragedy, what follows farce? How to demystify a hegemonic order that dismisses its own…
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What Comes After Farce
Surveying the artistic and cultural scene in the era of TrumpIf farce follows tragedy, what follows farce? How to demystify a hegemonic order that dismisses its own contradictions? Where does the double predicament of a post-truth and post-shame politics leave artists and critics on the Left?
How to out-dada President Ubu? How to belittle a political elite that cannot be embarrassed, or to mock party leaders who thrive on the absurd? And, in any event, why add outrage to a media economy that thrives on the same?What Comes After Farce?
comments on shifts in art, criticism, and fiction in the face of the current regime of war, surveillance, extreme inequality, and media disruption. A first section focuses on the cultural politics of emergency since 9/11, including the use and abuse of trauma, paranoia, and kitsch. A second group reviews the neoliberal makeover of art