Trump som politisk begivenhed
Fordelingspolitisk protest, kollektiv psykose og affektivt interface
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7146/kok.v46i126.111746Nøgleord:
Trump; kapitalisme; fascisme; affekt; interfaceResumé
As political event, Donald Trump constitutes an unstable conflict between the roles of international joke, capitalist-hedonist success, and nationalist-conservative rampart. The instability of his personal and political constitution makes it problematic to attempt a one-sided analysis. Through a critical reading of the quite different analyses performed by Nancy Fraser, W.J.T. Mitchell, and Brian Massumi of Trump as, respectively, a protest against the politics of distribution, a collective psychosis, and an affective converter, the present article examines Trump as political event in the intersection between capital, media, and power. It is argued that through a nuanced periodising of the relation between these three aspects, the political event at hand appears as an attempt to aesthetically compensate for the fading economic privilege of the white working and middle classes which should bring to mind the historical conditions of possibility of fascism.
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Postone, Moishe. ”Anti-Semitism and National Socialism: Notes on the German Reaction to ‘Holocaust’” New German Critique, No. 19, Special Issue 1: Germans and Jews. (Winter, 1980): 97-115.
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Schwartz, Nelson D. ”Trumps Sealed Carrier Deal With Mix of Threat and Incentive” New York Times 1. december 2016 https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/01/business/economy/trump-carrier-pence-jobs.html
Schwartz, Nelson D. ”At Carrier, the Factory Trump Saved, Morale Is Through the Floor” New York Times 10. august 2018 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/10/business/economy/carrier-trump-absenteeism-morale.html
Weeks, Kathi. ”Livet inden for og imod arbejde. Affektivt arbejde, feministisk kritik og post-fordistisk politik” Bridrag til kritik af den politisk vidensøkonomi. Red. Jakob Jakobsen. København: Nebula, 2014. 47-79.
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Andreasen, T. (2018). Trump som politisk begivenhed: Fordelingspolitisk protest, kollektiv psykose og affektivt interface. K&K - Kultur Og Klasse, 46(126), 195–216. https://doi.org/10.7146/kok.v46i126.111746
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