What Comes After Farce?: Art and Criticism at a Time of Debacle by Foster, Hal
What Comes After Farce?: Art and Criticism at a Time of Debacle by Foster, Hal

What Comes After Farce?: Art and Criticism at a Time of Debacle

Surveying the artistic and cultural scene in the era of Trump In a world where truth is...
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Author: Hal Foster
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What Comes After Farce?: Art and Criticism at a Time of Debacle by Foster, Hal

What Comes After Farce?: Art and Criticism at a Time of Debacle

$37.67
What Comes After Farce?: Art and Criticism at a Time of Debacle by Foster, Hal

What Comes After Farce?: Art and Criticism at a Time of Debacle

$37.67
Author: Hal Foster
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Surveying the artistic and cultural scene in the era of Trump

In a world where truth is cast in doubt and shame has gone missing, what are artists and critics on the left to do? How to demystify a political order that laughs away its own contradictions? How to mock leaders who thrive on the absurd? And why, in any event, offer more outrage to a media economy that feeds on the same?

Such questions are grist to the mill of Hal Foster, who, in What Comes after Farce?, delves into recent developments in art, criticism, and fiction under the current regime of war, surveillance, extreme inequality, and media disruption. Concerned first with the cultural politics of emergency since 9/11, including the use and abuse of trauma, conspiracy, and kitsch, he moves on to consider the neoliberal makeover of aesthetic forms and art institutions during the same period. A final section surveys signal transformations in art, film, and writing. Among the phenomena explored 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 that pervades our everyday lives.

If all this sounds dire, it is. In many respects we look out on a world that has moved, not only politically but also technologically, beyond our control. Yet Foster also sees possibility in the current debacle: the possibility to pressure the cracks in this order, to turn emergency into change.

Author: Hal Foster
Publisher: Verso
Published: 10/22/2024
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.94lbs
Size: 8.31h x 5.64w x 0.74d
ISBN: 9781804295939

About the Author

Hal Foster is the author of numerous books, including The Art-Architecture Complex; The First Pop Age: Painting and Subjectivity in the Art of Hamilton, Lichtenstein, Warhol, Richter, and Ruscha; Bad New Days: Art, Criticism, Emergency; and, with Richard Serra, Conversations about Sculpture. He teaches at Princeton University, co-edits the journal October, and contributes regularly to the London Review of Books.


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