{"id":89784,"date":"2015-09-15T09:25:41","date_gmt":"2015-09-15T13:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=89784"},"modified":"2015-09-15T10:44:15","modified_gmt":"2015-09-15T14:44:15","slug":"barthes-foresees-the-rise-of-trump-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2015\/09\/15\/barthes-foresees-the-rise-of-trump-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Barthes Foresees the Rise of Trump, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_89785\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/roland-barthes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-89785\" class=\"wp-image-89785\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/roland-barthes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/roland-barthes.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/roland-barthes-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-89785\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Barthes, looking into the hideous future of electoral politics.<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>The Internet is awash in devastating, graphic personal essays\u2014young writers are encouraged, maybe more than ever, to monetize and sensationalize their grisliest experiences. So \u2026 now what? \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/life\/technology\/2015\/09\/the_first_person_industrial_complex_how_the_harrowing_personal_essay_took.single.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Internet\u2019s confessional impulse has been fully codified<\/a>. Every site seems to have a first-person vertical \u2026 But for all the different house styles these pieces accommodate, it\u2019s striking how many of them read like reverse-engineered headlines, buzzy premises fleshed out with the gritty details of firsthand experience \u2026 This is a key problem with the new first-person economy: the way it incentivizes knee-jerk, ideally topical self-exposure, the hot take\u2019s more intimate sibling.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>The Joan Didion that people adore these days is the Didion of <em>The White Album <\/em>and <em><a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Slouching-Towards-Bethlehem-Joan-Didion\/dp\/0374521727%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dzemanta-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0374521727\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"amazon\">Slouching Towards Bethlehem<\/a><\/em>, not the Didion of <em>Democracy<\/em>\u2014but that novel is remarkable, too, and to read it is to enter a fecund and too often neglected phase of her career: \u201cThere\u2019s something in <em>Democracy<\/em> that you\u2019ll find little of in Didion\u2019s nonfiction: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vulture.com\/2015\/09\/toward-a-unified-theory-of-joan-didion.html\" target=\"_blank\">It\u2019s the book in which she does the most thinking about a formative subject in her life, the Vietnam War<\/a>, yet it\u2019s a book that rarely enters into current discussions of her work \u2026 A more useful understanding would recognize the later nonfiction as an extension and amplification of the early nonfiction\u2019s achievements. It would also see the novels as vital continuations of the same project, workings out of problems in style and sense painted on blank canvases. Such an understanding would turn <em>Democracy<\/em> from a bookshelf ornament to a central work about Vietnam, the other historical hinge in Didion\u2019s career.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Roland Barthes wrote well about TV, and professional wrestling in particular\u2014meaning he was also, thirty-five years ahead of time, writing well about Donald Trump\u2019s bid for the presidency. \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/politics\/2015\/09\/14\/3701084\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\">The key to generating passion, Barthes notes, is to position yourself to deliver justice against evil forces by whatever means necessary<\/a> \u2026 But why can\u2019t voters see that what Trump offers is just an act? As Barthes illustrates, that\u2019s asking the wrong question. \u2018It is obvious that at such a pitch, it no longer matters whether the passion is genuine or not. What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself. There is no more a problem of truth in wrestling than in the theater.\u2019\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Today in fact-checking: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2015\/sep\/15\/jurassic-world-tops-list-of-most-movie-mistakes-for-2015\" target=\"_blank\">the most error-prone movie of the year thus far<\/a> is <em>Jurassic World<\/em>, which boasts an impressive nineteen continuity blunders, plot holes, and factual mistakes. \u201cErrors in <em>Jurassic World<\/em> reportedly include a mobile phone that appears to magically fix itself \u2026 and the ability to start up an abandoned Jeep that has been parked, fully exposed to the elements, on a tropical island for twenty years \u2026 The all-time record is held by 1979\u2019s <em>Apocalypse Now<\/em>, with a whopping 561 mistakes.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>The typographer Adrian Frutiger, who designed the font for London\u2019s street signs, has died at eighty-seven. \u201cI learned to understand that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dezeen.com\/2015\/09\/14\/adrian-frutiger-obituary-life-work-font-designer-typography-univers-london-street-signs\/\" target=\"_blank\">beauty and readability\u2014and up to a certain point, banality<\/a>\u2014are close bedfellows,\u201d Frutiger said. \u201cThe best typeface is the one that impinges least on the reader\u2019s consciousness, becoming the sole tool that communicates the meaning of the writer to the understanding of the reader.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Internet is awash in devastating, graphic personal essays\u2014young writers are encouraged, maybe more than ever, to monetize and sensationalize their grisliest experiences. 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Every site seems to have a first-person vertical \u2026 But for all the different house styles these pieces accommodate, it\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2512],"tags":[19433,2967,19381,14823,8032,1362,19432,19430,4935,54,12735,436,19431],"class_list":["post-89784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-shelf","tag-adrian-frutiger","tag-democracy","tag-donald-trump","tag-errors","tag-first-person-2","tag-joan-didion","tag-jurassic-world","tag-personal-essay","tag-roland-barthes","tag-television","tag-the-internet","tag-typography","tag-wrestling"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Roland Barthes Foresees the Rise 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