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Spectacle and Trumpism : An Embodied Assemblage Approach /

This book advances new perspectives for critical thought by exploring the links between consumer culture and the post-truth politics of Trumpism, and how Trump embodies the frightening potential of capitalism to intersect with and enable fascistic forms of power.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Miller, Jacob C. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2021.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front Cover
  • Spectacle and Trumpism: An Embodied Assemblage Approach
  • Copyright information
  • Dedication
  • Dedication
  • Table of contents
  • Notes on the Author
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • What is spectacle?
  • Reconstructing the spectacle
  • Spectacle as embodied assemblage
  • Trumpism as fascist war machine
  • Plan of the book
  • One The Affects of Celebrity Brand
  • Lines of celebrity, lines of flight
  • Sowing, feeling and performing the spectacle
  • Reality-television presidency
  • Conclusion
  • Two (Head)phoning It In
  • A gathering tweet storm
  • Weathering the storm
  • Violent assemblages
  • Conclusion
  • Three Architectures of Wonder and Dismay
  • Arcade 1
  • Arcade 2
  • Arcade 3
  • Arcade 4
  • Conclusion: arcades, dead or alive?
  • Conclusion
  • 1 Spectacle is embodied and intense, not passive and hollow
  • 2 Donald Trump is as much a product of the spectacle as one of its masters
  • 3 Donald Trump uses spectacle politically, but as one of capitalism's lines of flight he also threatens the state
  • 4 The spectacle develops both interior and exterior linkages among consumer subjectivity and its broader environments
  • References
  • Index
  • Back Cover