The Trump Effect in Contemporary Art and Visual Culture: Populism, Politics, and Paranoia

Cover\nHalftitle page\nTitle page\nCopyright page\nDedication\nCONTENTS\nILLUSTRATIONS\nACKNOWLEDGMENTS\nIntroduction: The Trump Effect\n	The Trump Effect\n	Post-Ideology\n	Working Class Hero\n	The Left\n	Conspiracy\nCHAPTER ONE QAnon: “Shall We Play a Game?”\n	QAnon\n	The Trump Effect: Conspiracism\n	QAnon’s Mega-Archive\n	“Research for Yourself”\n	The Trumpist Fallacy\n	The Paranoid Style and Populism\n	Join the Dots\n	Guided Apophenia\n	Nothing Will Stop What Is Coming\nCHAPTER TWO The Critical Race Theory Moral Panic: Dana Schutz’s Open Casket and the Evergreen Affair\n	Open Casket\n	Conflicting Perspectives on the Left\n	Liberal Humanism versus Afropessimism\n	Systemic Racism\n	The Evergreen Affair\n	Bret Weinstein\n	Right-wing Liberalism\n	Conclusion\nCHAPTER THREE #cancel #woke #universities: “burn them down and start it all over again!”\n	Great Super-Genius\n	“Woke”\n	Cynical Theories\n	A Caricature of Postmodernism\n	Spreading the Word\n	The Woke Conspiracy\n	Australia: Burning to Boredom\n	Defund the Thought Police\n	The Trump Effect\nCHAPTER FOUR Our Past But Not Our Past: “Statue Wars” and Contemporary Art\n	1989, Monuments and Neoliberalism\n	Contextualizing the Art\n	Decolonizing Monuments: Walker and Raqs\n	Vanishing Historical Horizon: Catching up to Dafen\n	In the Meantime: Draft for a 20-Minute Monument\n	Conclusion\nCHAPTER FIVE Overidentifying with the Strongman: Trump and the Capitol Hill Riot\n	What Is “Trumpism”?\n	What Is a Strongman?\n	Balkanization\n	Conclusion\nCHAPTER SIX Delegated Insurrection\n	Trump the Artist and his Performance at Capitol Hill\n	The Capitol Hill Riot as a Delegated Performance\n	Class Ambiguity in Battle of Orgreave (2001)\n	The Failed Encounter in This Is Contemporary Art (2001)\n	Balkanizing the Hero in Death Anniversary (2004)\n	Rethinking the Capitol Hill Riot as a Delegated Performance\nConclusion\n	Democracy\nNOTES\nBIBLIOGRAPHY\nINDEX