What comes after farce? : Art and criticism at a time of debacle / Hal Foster.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Foster, Hal, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arts--Political aspects--History--21st century.

Arts.

Arts and society--History--21st century.

Arts and society.

Arts--Political aspects.

History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

x, 205 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; Brooklyn, NY : Verso, 2020.

Summary:

"If farce follows tragedy, what follows farce? Where does the double predicament of a post-truth and post-shame politics leave artists and critics on the Left? How to demystify a hegemonic order that dismisses its own contradictions? How to belittle a political elite that cannot be embarrassed, or to mock party leaders who thrive on the absurd? How to out-dada President Ubu? 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 institutions during the same period. Finally, a third section surveys transformations in media as reflected in recent art, film, and fiction. Among the phenomena explored here are "machine vision" (images produced by machines for other machines without a human interface), "operational images" (images that do not represent the world so much as intervene in it), and the algorithmic scripting of information so pervasive in our everyday lives"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

I Terror and Transgression

1 Traumatic Trace p. 3

2 Bush Kitsch p. 11

3 Paranoid Style p. 17

4 Wild Things p. 23

5 Père Trump p. 32

6 Conspirators p. 38

II Plutocracy and Display

7 Fetish Gods p. 45

8 Beautiful Breath p. 54

9 Human Strike p. 59

10 Exhibitionists p. 68

11 Gray Boxes p. 76

12 Underpainting p. 82

III Media and Fiction

13 Player Piano p. 99

14 Robo Eye p. 109

15 Smashed Screens p. 121

16 Machine Images p. 129

17 Model Worlds p. 139

18 Real Fictions p. 148.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Foster, Hal, What comes after farce?

ISBN:

9781788738118

178873811X

OCLC:

1119131741