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- Baudrillard in a ‘Post-Truth’World: Groundwork for a Critique of the Rise of Trump
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- University of Otago
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This paper takes the view that Baudrillard’s work on the West’s fascination with reality is as insightful as ever. The paper traces the rise of this fascination across four areas of his work: the critique of the commodity form, the rise of objective reality, hyperreality, and integral reality. I then argue that Baudrillard provides us with a means for adequately understanding and engaging with the current post-truth scandal. My claim is that the essence of’ ‘Trumpism’ is not to be found in a ...
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- Article
- Date created
- 2016-12
- Creator
- Nicholls, Brett
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- https://hdl.handle.net/10523/7989
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- Baudrillard / Donald Trump / Zizek / Post-truth / Simulation
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