NP? ctheory.net article re George W. Bush
pynchonoid
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Fri Jul 16 09:55:12 CDT 2004
>From ctheory.net, "Being Nothing: George W. Bush as
Presidential Simulacrum", an article by Carol V.
Hamilton that "appropriates ideas from Being There and
Baudrillard's Gulf War pieces in order to propose that
George W. Bush is a simulation, a virtual figure
upgraded from a prototype like that of Chance the
Gardener. I am not interested in George W. Bush's
corporeal being but rather in his flatness and in the
way that his obvious deficiencies are "spun" by
supposedly disinterested media pundits. Bush's
estrangement from the real -- evident in his
unfamiliarity with geography, history, ordinary
English syntax and semantics, and a fund of common
knowledge -- stems from his own lack of reality.
George W. Bush does not exist."
http://www.ctheory.net/text_file.asp?pick=427
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