Preview | NM Talkcore: writer Gideon Jacobs on Trump as image

This is a preview | Full episode released to subscribers: 11 Nov
2024 | Subscribe --> newmodels.io // Writer Gideon Jacobs joins
NM the day after the US election to discuss his essay “Trump
l’Oeil,” which ran in the LA Review of Books, November 3. Opening
with the images of Trump working at McDonalds, the piece explores
what happens when images start conveying a realness that is
untethered from reality; images that are generated (rather than
taken) and, like Trump, succeed by claiming truths rather than
dutifully indexing their referents. This is not a conversation
about US policy or politics. Instead, it considers how our current
media era is reshaping how the public thinks about both. For more:
https://gideon.works & IG: @gideon___jacobs
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/trump-loeil/