{"product_id":"dispatches-on-trump-the-image","title":"Dispatches: On Trump \u0026 the Image","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNOTE: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003eDispatches: On Trump \u0026amp; the Image \u003c\/em\u003ewill ship on October 26, 2026.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne hundred short essays all written during the first year of Donald Trump’s second presidential term. \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eForeword by Michael Taussig.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“I wish I could get all my news from David Levi Strauss’s \u003cem\u003eDispatches\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e Anchored by a single strong image, they are a breath of fresh air (and sometimes an arrow to the heart). Succinct, informative, and calls to action when the news is bad, which these days… it usually is.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e—Lucy Lippard, legendary art critic and political activist, author of \u003cem\u003eSix Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object, The Lure of the Local,\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eUndermining: A Wild Ride through Land Use, Politics, and Art in the Changing West,\u003c\/em\u003e among many other books\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“David Levi Strauss has written a fiercely original book for an age in which power increasingly governs through images, spectacle, speed, and manufactured forgetting. Dispatches teaches us how to see what authoritarian culture and power want hidden and how to read the images through which it captures our attention, colonizes consciousness, and demands our allegiance. Its great achievement lies in transforming the turbulence of the present into a public critical pedagogy of seeing, remembering, and resisting. Moving brilliantly across politics, art, technology, and everyday life, Strauss exposes the cultural machinery through which authoritarianism enters everyday consciousness and fascist politics acquires the force of common sense. Urgent, lucid, and intellectually fearless, this is criticism as a form of democratic resistance, confronting a historical moment in which regimes of pedagogical terrorism are producing the fears, desires, hatreds, and forms of identification on which fascist politics feeds. \u003cem\u003eDispatches \u003c\/em\u003ereminds us that learning how to see differently is crucial to reclaiming the capacities to judge, resist, and imagine a future in which democracy once again becomes possible.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e—Henry A. Giroux, a founding theorist of critical pedagogy, carrying on the work of Paulo Freire, author of many books, including \u003cem\u003eAmerican Nightmare: The Challenge of U.S. Authoritarianism and Insurrections: Education in the Age of Counter-Revolutionary Politics\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eTexts\u003c\/b\u003e: David Levi Strauss, Michael Taussig\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 364, \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003ecolor images throughout\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCover:\u003c\/b\u003e Softcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eType:\u003c\/b\u003e Essay\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished year:\u003c\/b\u003e 2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 978-1-57027-447-3\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCo-published with \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eAutonomedia\u003c\/span\u003e. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rail Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45629140140208,"sku":null,"price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0253\/9349\/6167\/files\/Dispatchescovers20260921.jpg?v=1790873791","url":"https:\/\/shop.brooklynrail.org\/products\/dispatches-on-trump-the-image","provider":"The Brooklyn Rail","version":"1.0","type":"link"}