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Performance is Reality

Blow it all wide open. Use the performance energy to rupture reality, bring the suspension of disbelief into the real world, a one man reality show… I have entered my own skin, anything is possible, like lucid dreaming… Everything we touch becomes a performance, including the construction of our own lives. To walk out the front door is to embark on stage, our every move, articulation, action… Everything becomes performance… In the post reality, there must be performance everywhere… You might think of it as an über-happening in which we are all active-participants of a collective performance in the maze-like grid of Facebook or twitter or foursquare or whatever… Hooks into the process. Connect it to the life event as the real thing: performance… Performance as an intentional articulation of specific moments in time… (STOP) This is it. This is the Act we have all been waiting for. When all semblance of what is real has been cast aside, when reality as we know it becomes a figment of the imagination, when truth is merely an annoying inconvenience, when the gesture, the emotion, the shout, and the articulation are everything.

  • TRUMPology as a State of Simulation in the Post Reality (8/23/2020)
  • Life in the TRUMP Zone (8/10/2020)
  • On Becoming the Great Dictator (2/2/2020)
  • Body Blow Against the Social Order (1/28/2020)
  • The Cinematic Spectacle of the Impeachment Saga (1/19/2020)
  • Everything is on Trial in the Heart of Darkness (11/23/2019)
  • Deep in the Heart of Ukraine (11/16/2019)
  • Big Brother is Tweeting You (11/3/2019)
  • The Televisual Impeachment Spectacle (10/3/2019)
  • Deep Throat Redux (9/29/2019)
  • The Great Dictator (7/6/2019)
  • XTreme TRUMPological Dystopia (6/13/2019)
  • TRUMP the Manchurian Candidate (3/3/2019)
  • The Greatest Show on Earth for the Post Reality (2/27/2019)
  • Theater is a State of Constant Emergency (2/16/2019)
  • The Great Memetic Pavlovian Experiment (2/6/2019)
  • Stoned & Confused (1/26/2019)
  • The Complete and Total XTreme TRUMPological Shutdown of the Mind (1/18/2019)
  • The Great Wall of America (1/9/2019)
  • The Broadcast Never Stops (12/26/2018)
  • An Ode to Madness on an Apocalyptic Xmas Eve (12/24/2018)
  • The Existential Paradox of Giving up Control (1/21/2018)
  • An Electronically Infused Moment of Rupture and Social Transformation in the 1960s (9/9/2017)
  • The Art of TRUMP L’oeil (8/12/2017)
  • The Exquisite Disorder of Live Simultaneity from the Stage to the Network (8/2/2017)
  • On Becoming a Meta-Narrator and Aggregation Machine in the #NeWWWorlDisorder (7/20/2017)
  • The Presidential Family Crime Syndicate (7/16/2017)
  • TRUMP’s MIND Control (6/21/2017)
  • The Spies Who Loved Me (5/25/2017)
  • The Laboratory of Networked Behavior (5/14/2017)
  • You’re Fired! (5/12/2017)
  • The TRUMP Simulation Effect (4/16/2017)
  • The Collapse of the Real and the Imaginary (2/19/2017)
  • The Attack of the Real (2/7/2017)
  • Requiem for Truth (1/14/2017)
  • The Minister of Post-Truth (12/5/2016)
  • The Death of Reality (11/25/2016)
  • The Transition (11/19/2016)
  • Truth is Stranger Than Fiction (11/12/2016)
  • President TRUMP: Only in the Post Reality (11/9/2016)
  • Political Discourse and its Malcontents (11/4/2016)
  • The Revolution will be Broadcasted via Facebook Live (10/20/2016)
  • The Slings and Arrows of Outrageous Misfortune (10/15/2016)
  • It’s Us Against the World (10/12/2016)
  • Hurricane Donald (10/8/2016)
  • Le TRUMPE Fou (10/4/2016)
  • Tweet Bombing the Nation (9/30/2016)
  • The Erosion of the Real (9/28/2016)
  • The Naked Id of XTreme TRUMPology (9/26/2016)
  • The Deplorables (9/13/2016)

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