Co-Illusion
Dispatches from the End of Communication
- Hardcover
184 pages
- Release Date
31 March 2020
Summary
Reports from America’s political crisis, exposing a new “iconopolitics,” in which words and images lose their connection to reality.The political crisis that sneaked up on America-the rise of Trump and Trumpism-has revealed the rot at the core of American exceptionalism. Recent changes in the way words and images are produced and received have made the current surreality possible; communication through social media, by design, maximizes attention and minimizes scrutiny. In Co-Illusion, the no…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262043540 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262043548 |
| Author: | David Levi Strauss, Susan Meiselas, Peter van Agtmael |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 184 |
| Release Date: | 31 March 2020 |
| Weight: | 644g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 178mm x 17mm |
| Series: | The MIT Press |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
“David Levi Strauss’s Co-Illusion: Dispatches from the End of Communication asks the fundamental question about the Trump presidency: ‘How did we get here?’ An art critic and scholar of photography, Strauss grounds his observations and speculation in a deep understanding of the image, which can upend rational discourse and prevailing wisdom with astonishing speed.”
– The Brooklyn Rail
“Strauss’s texts are essential writing today, in a media environment run amok.”
– Afterimage
About The Author
David Levi Strauss
David Levi Strauss is a writer and critic and Chair of the MFA program in Art Writing at the School of Visual Arts in New York. He is the author of Between the Eyes- Essays on Photography and Politics, Words Not Spent Today Buy Smaller Images Tomorrow- Essays on the Present and Future of Photography, and other books.
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