Co-Illusion

Dispatches from the End of Communication

Ranked #75 in Propaganda

Reports from America's political crisis, exposing a new "iconopolitics," in which words and images lose their connection to reality.

The political crisis that sneaked up on America--the rise of Trump and Trumpism--has revealed the rot at the core of American exceptionalism. Recent changes in the way words and images are produced and received have made the current surreality possible; communication through social media, by design, maximizes attention and minimizes scrutiny. In Co-Illusion, the noted writer on art, photography, and politics David Levi Strauss bears...
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