Co-Illusion: Dispatches from the End of Communication

by David Levi Strauss

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262043548
• ISBN13: 9780262043540
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.3" x 9.1"