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Scandalous Times - Contemporary Creativity and the Rise of State-Sanctioned Controversy (Paperback)
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Scandalous Times - Contemporary Creativity and the Rise of State-Sanctioned Controversy (Paperback)
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We live in scandalous times. Every day some new controversy demands
our attention, our emotional investment, and, ultimately, our
judgment. Many of these routine transgressions will be understood
in ‘revelatory’ terms, as peeling back the multiple layers of
artifice and spin to reveal an underlying, and oftentimes
disturbing, ‘truth’. Otherswill be recognized as calculated
marketing exercises that simply present the strategic face of
contemporary capitalism. Yet these ‘ordinary’ scandals can
themselves be seen to be largely derivative of another, altogether
more fundamental—and fundamentally rare—form of disruption.
Such is the real scandal that accompanies instances of authentic
creation. Building on the philosophy of Alain Badiou, Scandalous
Times not only argues the case for such ‘real scandal’, but
also shows how it is today being abrogated and substituted through
the increasing production of novel forms of state-sanctioned
controversy. From Duchamp to Donald Trump, Scandalous Times
explores the ways in which areas from art and advertising to
politics and social media have come to actively contribute to this
‘static’ fabrication of controversy, all the while arguing for
the need to rethink creativity as a radical exception to the state,
and not its proxy.
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