{"product_id":"what-comes-after-farce-art-and-criticism-at-a-time-of-debacle-paperback","title":"What Comes After Farce?: Art and Criticism at a Time of Debacle - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHal Foster\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSurveying the artistic and cultural scene in the era of Trump\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Such questions are grist to the mill of Hal Foster, who, in \u003ci\u003eWhat Comes after Farce?\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHal Foster\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of numerous books, including \u003ci\u003eThe Art-Architecture Complex\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe First Pop Age: Painting and Subjectivity in the Art of Hamilton, Lichtenstein, Warhol, Richter, and Ruscha\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eBad New Days: Art, Criticism, Emergency\u003c\/i\u003e; and, with Richard Serra, \u003ci\u003eConversations about Sculpture\u003c\/i\u003e. He teaches at Princeton University, co-edits the journal \u003ci\u003eOctober\u003c\/i\u003e, and contributes regularly to the \u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.74 x 8.31 x 5.64 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 22, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51763357974816,"sku":"9781804295939","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/aac23c956b84f78e26576f8265368a66.webp?v=1780233077","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/what-comes-after-farce-art-and-criticism-at-a-time-of-debacle-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}