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Surrealpolitik: Surreality and the National Security State

Surrealpolitik: Surreality and the National Security State

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General Political ScienceGeneral Sociology

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ISBN10: 1785359495
ISBN13: 9781785359491
Publisher: Zer0 Books
Published: Oct 1 2022
Pages: 152
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
Our times are not just weird, but literally surreal: we live in a paranoid, increasingly authoritarian culture in which the real, the presumed and the purported are indistinguishable strands of a dense hallucinatory web of mediated spectacles. Surrealpolitik takes up cultural theorist Mark Fisher's challenge to expose capitalist realism's 'realism' as nothing of the sort. To subject the symbolic order to a surrealist mode of inquiry is to transgress taboos, reveal biases and inconsistencies, test assumptions and investigate the extent to which the real is, like our dreams - a fungible projection of our unconscious expectations. The nexus of dreams, hyperreality, paranoia, totalitarianism, terror, art, myth and culture is where realpolitik becomes the surrealpolitik of the title.

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