Making Art in the Age of Trump

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Making Art in the Age of Trump

Post by cronus » Sat Jun 04, 2016 11:28 am

http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainmen ... ry/485054/

Making Art in the Age of Trump

Listening to Laurie Anderson’s debut record, 1982’s Big Science, today, is something like finding an old prophecy that perfectly explains the present day. The title track heralds sprawl and maybe geoengineering (“I think we should put some mountains here. Otherwise, what are the characters going to fall off of?”). “O Superman” warns of ever-present death from the air in an era of jingoism (“Here come the planes. They’re American planes. Made in America.”). Some of those lyrics, intoned drily over robotically menacing synths, seem to speak to the ongoing presidential election: “This is your Captain—and we are going down, we are all going down, together. And I said: Uh oh. This is gonna be some day.”

(continued, one of the better pieces from the long drag of a year in politics....) :read:
What will the world be like after its ruler is removed?

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