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Pub Date : 2020-11-18DOI: 10.46692/9781529212518.005
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This chapter considers the impact of technology on society in recent years. A new environment of information, social media and digital interfaces has inaugurated new political connections that have transformed the landscape. Rather than ruminate over the ways that Trump uses Twitter and other technologies to communicate in sometimes bizarre and dangerous ways, this chapter discusses how the spectacle itself has gone digital and how this has produced a kind of hyper-techno-consumer. There is an uneasy resemblance between the narcissism that this technology is capable of producing and the personality of Trump himself.
{"title":"(Head)Phoning It In","authors":"Jacob C. Miller","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv18b5d4v.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv18b5d4v.7","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter considers the impact of technology on society in recent years. A new environment of information, social media and digital interfaces has inaugurated new political connections that have transformed the landscape. Rather than ruminate over the ways that Trump uses Twitter and other technologies to communicate in sometimes bizarre and dangerous ways, this chapter discusses how the spectacle itself has gone digital and how this has produced a kind of hyper-techno-consumer. There is an uneasy resemblance between the narcissism that this technology is capable of producing and the personality of Trump himself.","PeriodicalId":218913,"journal":{"name":"Spectacle and Trumpism","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127705673","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Despite the spectacle going digital, the physical built environment of cities, infrastructure and everyday space continues to exist, at least for the time being. It is worth noting that the Trump enterprise perfected its post-truth capabilities through the production of these spectacular spaces as well, including hotels, resorts, casinos, shopping centers and other spaces of leisure. Again, the spectacle as an embodied assemblage enrols us in a series of activities that bring us into an uneasy proximity with the consumer world promoted by the Trump family business itself.
{"title":"Architectures of Wonder and Dismay","authors":"Jacob C. Miller","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv18b5d4v.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv18b5d4v.8","url":null,"abstract":"Despite the spectacle going digital, the physical built environment of cities, infrastructure and everyday space continues to exist, at least for the time being. It is worth noting that the Trump enterprise perfected its post-truth capabilities through the production of these spectacular spaces as well, including hotels, resorts, casinos, shopping centers and other spaces of leisure. Again, the spectacle as an embodied assemblage enrols us in a series of activities that bring us into an uneasy proximity with the consumer world promoted by the Trump family business itself.","PeriodicalId":218913,"journal":{"name":"Spectacle and Trumpism","volume":"229 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133515626","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Index","authors":"","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv18b5d4v.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv18b5d4v.11","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":218913,"journal":{"name":"Spectacle and Trumpism","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121044776","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-11-18DOI: 10.1332/policypress/9781529212501.003.0005
Jacob C. Miller
The Conclusion puts forward four key points for understanding spectacle as an embodied assemblage: (1) Spectacle is embodied and intense, not passive and hollow; (2) Donald Trump is as much a product of the spectacle as one of its masters; (3) Donald Trump utilizes spectacle politically, but as one of capitalism’s “lines of flight” he also threatens the State; and (4) The spectacle develops both interior and exterior linkages among consumer subjectivity and its broader environments.
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This chapter explores how Trump’s political identity builds on his status as a celebrity and as a brand. Trump has long utilized media technologies of spectacle in order to enhance his brand identity. As a commercial assemblage, Trump’s business model has been to combine the affective dimensions of celebrity and brand in a way that guarantees the flows of capital and finance that his business enterprise requires. The first chapter provides this context for how we have been socialized by these technologies of post-truth reality during these years and how they came to infect political culture. Trump was gaining celebrity status in the 1980s when President Ronald Reagan was putting similar techniques to work in the White House, providing an early model for Trump to later reinvent.
{"title":"The Affects of Celebrity Brand","authors":"Jacob C. Miller","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv18b5d4v.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv18b5d4v.6","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter explores how Trump’s political identity builds on his status as a celebrity and as a brand. Trump has long utilized media technologies of spectacle in order to enhance his brand identity. As a commercial assemblage, Trump’s business model has been to combine the affective dimensions of celebrity and brand in a way that guarantees the flows of capital and finance that his business enterprise requires. The first chapter provides this context for how we have been socialized by these technologies of post-truth reality during these years and how they came to infect political culture. Trump was gaining celebrity status in the 1980s when President Ronald Reagan was putting similar techniques to work in the White House, providing an early model for Trump to later reinvent.","PeriodicalId":218913,"journal":{"name":"Spectacle and Trumpism","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129312551","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}