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

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