{"product_id":"what-comes-after-farce","title":"What Comes After Farce","description":"If farce follows tragedy, what follows farce? Where does the double predicament of a post-truth and post-shame politics leave artists and critics on the left? How to demystify a hegemonic order that dismisses its own contradictions? How to belittle a political elite that cannot be embarrassed, or to mock party leaders who thrive on the absurd? How to out-dada President Ubu? And, in any event, why add outrage to a media economy that thrives on the same? \u0026lt;i\u0026gt;What Comes After Farce?\u0026lt;\/i\u0026gt; comments on shifts in art, criticism, and fiction in the face of the current regime of war, surveillance, extreme inequality, and media disruption. A first section focuses on the cultural politics of emergency since 9\/11, including the use and abuse of trauma, paranoia, and kitsch. A second reviews the neoliberal makeover of art institutions during the same period. Finally, a third section surveys transformations in media as reflected in recent art, film, and fiction. Among the phenomena explored here 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 so pervasive in our everyday lives.","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57395185156478,"sku":"NW9781804295939","price":15.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781804295939.jpg?v=1778630023","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-eu\/products\/what-comes-after-farce","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}