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Surrealpolitik|John Schoneboom

Surrealpolitik : Surreality and the National Security State

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Overview

Our times are not just weird, but literally surreal: we live in a paranoid, increasingly authoritarian culture in which the real, the presumed and the purported are indistinguishable strands of a dense hallucinatory web of mediated spectacles. Surrealpolitik takes up cultural theorist Mark Fisher's challenge to expose capitalist realism's 'realism' as nothing of the sort. To subject the symbolic order to a surrealist mode of inquiry is to transgress taboos, reveal biases and inconsistencies, test assumptions and investigate the extent to which the real is, like our dreams - a fungible projection of our unconscious expectations. The nexus of dreams, hyperreality, paranoia, totalitarianism, terror, art, myth and culture is where realpolitik becomes the surrealpolitik of the title.

Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781785359491
  • ISBN-10: 1785359495
  • Publisher: Zer0 Books
  • Publish Date: October 2022
  • Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.4 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.4 pounds
  • Page Count: 152

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