Cambridge, MA, Estados Unidos : MIT Press, c2020.

1 recurso electrónico (178 p.)

I. A cold fear. -- Dispatch 1. In advance of the orange acid. -- Dispatch 2. New shootings. -- Dispatch 3. Alpha male in the mist. -- Dispatch 4. A cold fear. -- Dispatch 5. Trump city. -- Dispatch 6. Cracking the black mirror. -- Dispatch 7. Befriending the bewildered. -- Dispatch 8. Pay, pal. -- Dispatch 9. Agree? reach out to me. -- Dispatch 10. Trump bump on Bernie night. -- Dispatch 11. Troubled water. -- Dispatch 12. Breaking the machine. -- Dispatch 13. Don't boo, vote. -- Dispatch 14. Reality tunnel. -- Dispatch 15. Wikitrump? -- Dispatch 16. My new order, up & down. -- Dispatch 17. Big stupd data. -- Dispatch 18. Simone Weil, T. J. Clark, and Bernie Sanders' grimace. -- Dispatch 19. Midnight in Daytona. -- Dispatch 20. A viable third horse? -- Dispatch 21. Clint'n Trump, talking to the empty chair. -- Dispatch 22. Trump 2.0, turning tables. -- Dispatch 23. Why Trump can't lose. -- Dispatch 24. The lauer depths. -- Dispatch 25. Rope-a-doping the mainstreaming of deviancy. -- Dispatch 26. Hurricane. -- Dispatch 27. The new real. -- Dispatch 28. It's just words, folks, it's just words. -- Dispatch 29. The base. -- Dispatch 30. The elites. -- Dispatch 31. The apprentice. -- Dispatch 32. Angry people click more. -- Dispatch 33. It's the communications environment, stupid. -- Dispatch 34. Forty-four years. -- Dispatch 35. Year zero. -- II. The new image. -- Prologue in the theater (after Faust). -- The world on the screens. -- Free to be you & me. -- Trump talks. -- Priming the pump. -- A blunt instrument for us. -- Reuse this content. -- Politics porn in the morning. -- Ergo Erdogan. -- Free people. -- Hand on my weapons. -- Fame and freedom. -- F is for fake. -- My generals. -- It's not enough. -- Special counsel. -- Pornstache. -- Tool for conviviality. -- Damascus. -- Organized crime. -- Fox and friends. -- Melanie, Melanie? -- Kulturkampf. -- Pardon me. -- Kim & me. -- 86.9% -- Chaos theory. -- The future remains to be written. -- Zero tender age tolerance. -- The Wharton school. -- Independence Day. -- My guy in Moscow. -- There's no place like space. -- My lowlife dog. -- Believe me. -- Coda. --

Reports from America's political crisis, exposing a new “iconopolitics,” in which words and images lose their connection to reality. The political crisis that sneaked up on America—the rise of Trump and Trumpism—has revealed the rot at the core of American exceptionalism. Recent changes in the way words and images are produced and received have made the current surreality possible; communication through social media, by design, maximizes attention and minimizes scrutiny. In Co-Illusion, the noted writer on art, photography, and politics David Levi Strauss bears witness to the new “iconopolitics” in which words and images lose their connection to reality. The collusion that fueled Trump's rise was the secret agreement of voters and media consumers—their “co-illusion”—to set aside the social contract. Strauss offers dispatches from the epicenter of our constitutional earthquake, writing first from the 2016 Democratic and Republican conventions and then from the campaign. After the election, he switches gears, writing in the voices of the regime and of those complicit in its actions—from the thoughts of the President himself (“I am not a mistake. I am not a fluke, or a bug in the system. I am the System”) to the reflections of a nameless billionaire tech CEO whose initials may or may not be M. Z. Finally, Strauss shows us how we might repair the damage to the public imaginary after Trump exits the scene. Photographs by celebrated documentary photographers Susan Meiselas and Peter van Agtmael accompany the texts.

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