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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

Dancing Trump

Why language critique can’t explain the American president,
whereas masks and music can

Stefan Börnchen

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