Скачать или смотреть The Post-Structural Right: Maurice Blanchot's The Writing of the Disaster-COVID LOCKDOWN EDITION #3

A continuation of our reading of Maurice Blanchot's "The Writing of the Disaster" as it relates to the COVID-19 pandemic and right-wing politics in America.

This video discusses right-wing's growing use of political language that seems totally divorced from "reality" and unconcerned with "Truth" as a discrete and knowable concept. We could call this a form of "pure discourse;" it's representation without a represented subject.

This form of political messaging has become known as Trumpism, but it predates the current Republican administration by at least 15 years. This video posits that the origins may be found in the Iraq War and the Bush administration, although I'm sure an argument could be made that the trend reaches further back into history than that.

Regardless of where and when the trend started, I believe that the theories developed by post-structuralists and proto-deconstructionists describe the cultural forces that Trumpism capitalizes on. And, that these theories could be useful to the left as they try to contend with this new breed of postmodern conservative.

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Truuump the builder!
Can he build it?
NO!
YOU'RE FIRED!
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You guys remember Bob The Builder? yeah me neither.