Description
Kellyanne Conway, Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, Q-Anon, Fox News, etc., etc., etc. have kidnapped the last century of intellectual thought and philosophical investigation: poststructuralism, quantum physics, deconstruction, the current crisis in nonfiction-journalism- media-truthiness. If the perceiver, by his very presence, alters whats perceived, Steve Bannon, Vladimir Putin, Vladislav Surkov (performance-artist-turned-Putin-strategist), et al. have quite consciously createdare all still quite consciously creating on a day-by-day basisa universe in which nothing is true and therefore public discourse is, in effect, over. Dominion Voting Systems was founded to rig elections for Hugo Chavez; Italian space lasers modified voting machine data; the FBI staged the January 6 attack: this is a strategy that goes back at least as far as Dostoevskys underground man. God is dead, so everything is permitted. Or is it? How We Got Here provocative, accessible, persuasive, and addictive is a crucial intervention in which David Shields argues that Melville plus Nietzsche divided by the square root of (Allan) Bloom times Zizek (squared) equals Bannon.
Author: David Shields
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Sublation Media
Published: 09/24/2024
Pages: 152
Weight: 0.4lbs
Size: 7.90h x 4.90w x 0.30d
ISBN: 9798990159136
Language: English
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