“Planetary Madness” is the sequel essay to “American Psychosis: Trump and the Nightmare of History,” delivered at University of Geneva just before the inauguration.
Geneva Lecture on Trump Election: https://mediaserver.unige.ch/play/99534
A text, without the wonderful clips and images, is available at the LA Review of Books: http://bit.ly/2gpF7R3
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W. J. T. Mitchell is Gaylord Donnelley Distinguished Service Professor of English, Art History, and Cinema at the University of Chicago. His books include “Iconology,” “What Do Pictures Want?,” “Seeing Through Race,” and “Image Science.” He is the editor of the journal, “Critical Inquiry.”
Home Page: https://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/wjtmitchell/
Editor, Critical Inquiry: http://criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/
CI Blog: http://critinq.wordpress.com/
Lecture on Antony Gormley’s Infinite Cube, based on an idea by Gabriel Mitchell: https://vimeo.com/146467772