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table of contents
  1. Cover image
  2. Title Page
  3. Imprint
  4. Logos
  5. Contents
  6. “Let’s make it into music”: Trump dances
  7. Twitter and TV
  8. A brief language critique of Trump’s language critique (Michael Wolff)
  9. Liquidation of meaning and simulacricity (Baudrillard)
  10. “Reading meaning and depth into Trump” (Maggie Haberman): On the topology of surface and depth
  11. Music instead of language
  12. Political dance: Richard Sennett on Louis XIV
  13. Mimesis as dance, music and performance (Aristotle)
  14. Mimesis as imitation, resemblance to truth and deception (Plato)
  15. Poetics (Aristotle) versus ethics and education (Plato)
  16. Voice and hypocrisy
  17. A tie instead of soul. James Joyce’s superficiality
  18. The fact is what is currently being performed
  19. Mugshot and mask. Trump’s official portrait
  20. Masks and power
  21. Janus and Dionysus, the fecal version
  22. What is the inversion of truth against the abolition of its possibility?
  23. Without wit or irony: Trump rescues kittens
  24. Thanks

Thanks

This essay is taken from the lecture “Dancing Trump. Mimesis, Music and Politics on Social Media”, which I gave at a conference on the digital public sphere in Luxembourg in March 2025. I would like to thank Tomás Espino Barrera, Till Dembeck, Carolyn Knaup, Oliver Kohns, Ruth Reicher, Ralf Simon and Lena Steveker for reading and comments. Many thanks to Matthias Wehrhahn for allowing me to publish this text once again in English, after it first appeared in German with Wehrhahn Verlag. I would also like to thank Lee Holt for the translation.

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