Scandalous Times: Contemporary Creativity and the Rise of State-Sanctioned Controversy

by Alex Ling

Book Overview

We live in scandalous times. Every day some new controversy demands our attention, our emotional investment, and, ultimately, our judgment. Many of these routine transgressions will be understood in 'revelatory' terms, as peeling back the multiple layers of artifice and spin to reveal an underlying, and oftentimes disturbing, 'truth'. Otherswill be recognized as calculated marketing exercises that simply present the strategic face of contemporary...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 135006856X
• ISBN13: 9781350068568
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"