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“Let’s make it into music”: Trump dances
Twitter and TV
A brief language critique of Trump’s language critique (Michael Wolff)
Liquidation of meaning and simulacricity (Baudrillard)
“Reading meaning and depth into Trump” (Maggie Haberman): On the topology of surface and depth
Music instead of language
Political dance: Richard Sennett on Louis XIV
Mimesis as dance, music and performance (Aristotle)
Mimesis as imitation, resemblance to truth and deception (Plato)
Poetics (Aristotle) versus ethics and education (Plato)
Voice and hypocrisy
A tie instead of soul. James Joyce’s superficiality
The fact is what is currently being performed
Mugshot and mask. Trump’s official portrait
Masks and power
Janus and Dionysus, the fecal version
What is the inversion of truth against the abolition of its possibility?
Without wit or irony: Trump rescues kittens
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