Poetry
Truth Be Told
Contributors
Charles BernsteinCharles Bernstein’s new collection of poetry, Topsy-Turvy, will be out in April from University of Chicago Press. Recent books include Near/Miss (poems) and Pitch of Poetry (essays).
Charles BernsteinCharles Bernstein is the author of more than twenty books. He teaches at UPenn.
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Nele Wynants’s When Fact Is Fiction: Documentary Art in the Post-Truth Era
By Tiernan MorganOCT 2020 | Art Books
The anthology’s thirteen contributors, among them artists, photographers, broadcasters, and filmmakers, analyze projects that exemplify the discursive and rhetorical value of blurring the distinction between fiction and reality. But, despite its title, the contemporary context of online culture, populism, and “fake news” are almost entirely absent from its pages.
Governing the Ungovernable
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In 2008, some rioters described their rebellion against police brutality in Greece as an image of the future. More than a decade later, but this time negatively, the truth of that insight continues to haunt.
Partial Reveals & Inclusive Revelations in the Post-Truth Simulacracy: The Poetics
By Chris CampanioniJUL-AUG 2020 | Books
The Poetics is interested in exactly this conjunction, and Ives questions both the narrative of history and the history of narrative as a form in elaborate, strident observations that are illuminating and speculative.
The Revolution Is the Trial
By Pac PobricMARCH 2021 | Critics Page
So here we are, misled by false notions: petty legal wrangling, diversionary demands, political posturing. And all within our usual terrain, set out by the returning old guard. “Such is the natural dominion of habit that we regard the most arbitrary conventions, sometimes indeed the most defective institutions, as absolute measures of truth or falsehood, justice or injustice,” Robespierre warned. Thus begins Biden’s hollow restoration.
