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Barbara Kruger’s Postmodern Jeremiads, Pt. IV

Barbara Kruger's Postmodern Jeremiads, Pt. IV

All of this begs the question, for Kruger as well as for any politically engaged postmodern artist: If we’re all patsies of the simulacrum, how can we choose a political program? How does one slip out from under “remote control” in order to make decisions with any but false consciousness? In U2′s Zoo TV Live [...]

Barbara Kruger’s Postmodern Jeremiads, Pt. I

Barbara Kruger's Postmodern Jeremiads, Pt. I

Mes Chères, Working on my summer research, I was trying to remember something I thought I’d said about U2 in a review essay published back in 1994 in the online journal Postmodern Culture. When I found it and re-read it, I was surprised, actually, that I had written it: it’s been so long since I’ve [...]