![]() Yet his public persona, parlayed live, in print or on-line, presents a mass of contradictions and poses problems of interpretation. With its ever-unfolding contradictions and rhetorical shifts, the Trump Presidency poses the eternal question of the nature of leadership: is the leader’s behavior a consequence of his or her personal qualities, or of the organizational context in which s/he operates? (Kelly, 2014) Footnote 5 This query leads naturally, given a media emphasis on celebrity, to a more direct question about authenticity: is his Presidential persona rooted in his personal identity, is it a carefully constructed performance, or, in some measure, both? Trump asserts that his business success is the proof of his authenticity. ![]() ![]() One strikingly sycophantic alt-righter refers to Trump as 'the Tea Party on steroids, a modern embodiment of Sir William Wallace, who will turn Washington upside, end the gravy train and break the old boys’ network'. Whatever his flaws, which he would be the very last to admit, he impresses his colleagues and competitors as a hyperbolic personage. Others defending his chutzpah have argued that, like Walt Whitman, Trump has a grandiose personality and is therefore bound to contradict himself. He has long believed-like Barnum and Goebbels before him-in the Big Lie, that 'little' people are mesmerized by exaggeration or as he terms it, 'truthful hyperbole' (Trump, 1987, p. But if he is not as clever as he thinks he is, he is not stupid. Footnote 3 His reply is already on record: life’s losers always bolster their flabby self-esteem by denigrating achievers (Trump, 1987, p. Footnote 2 One view is that Trump’s penchant for self-contradiction is evidence of his stupidity. ![]() Trump’s tendency to confabulation has become an object of derision, not to say alarm, given the powers of the Presidency to influence national and international politics. There will be no clear voice or unity from his administration, cabinet or White House (Dr Decker, 2017) Footnote 1. The people he chooses will be a combination of other narcissists and well-connected yes-men…. Since he is not dealing with his own business and his own money, he will not vet personnel as thoroughly as he should. In a probing contribution to NLR’s green strategy debate, Kenta Tsuda asks what growth is and whether humanity could do without it how resource use might be measured what political problems the implementation of degrowth would entail.As a narcissist, he will only work on a superficial level and plan on hiring minions to handle details. What kind of judgment does the gimmick demand? What is the position of the aesthetic object in capitalist relations of production? Franco Moretti engages with Sianne Ngai’s Kantian-Marxist interrogation of the aesthetic and its limits. What becomes of the struggle for recognition in the reputation economy? Franco Moretti Bande à Part But in platform-mediated civil society, even the powerful seem to feel under-recognized. In the 1990s, the Hegelian notion of a struggle for recognition was reclaimed by critical theorists to conceptualize the politics of subaltern identities. William Davies The Politics of Recognition in the Age of Social Media Could a New Deal capitalism in principle be capable of satisfying them? Is it even possible to disentangle ‘real’ needs from socially constructed ones? Translation of two texts from a 1942 seminar on the question of need. Marxism is premised on the possibility of a political economy structured to meet human needs, rather than generate private profit. Theodor Adorno, Gretel Adorno & Friedrich Pollock Theory of Needs Rustbelt regions, embedded in national contexts beset by persistent geographical polarizations, yet stubbornly consequential for their political outcomes. Anton Jäger Rebel RegionsĪ comparative engagement with Tom Hazeldine’s The Northern Question, setting the trajectory of England’s former industrial powerhouse against that of Belgium’s Wallonia. With the waning of American-led globalization, and its legacy of militarization, are their avatars-Russia, Turkey, Iran-re-emerging, equipped with Israeli drones? Georgi Derluguian locates the 2020 war for Nagorno Karabagh in the geopolitical longue durée. Articles Georgi Derluguian A Small World WarĪt the intersection of Eurasia’s pre-modern empires, Transcaucasia has long been a battlezone.
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