Don’t Call it Comeback (I’ve been here for years)

20/12/08  Dieter Roelstraete

Obamamania is no longer limited to American politics. The individual as leader has been reinstated and is being held high aloft. We can say that this is remarkable, after decades of the author being declared dead, of the cultural world giving itself over to endless system analyses of the economy, of politics and other power structures. What does this revival of the ultra-personal creative subject mean for art and culture?

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