Idiocracy: The Culture of the New Idiot

There is a new quality of idiocy today. While the old idiot derived knowledge from isolation, the new idiot refuses all understanding of the world. A figure of systematic incompetence, the new idiot is impacting global culture and politics alike, giving rise to surprising, often absurd competences. Yesterday's "fake news" or "post-truths" can be read today as evidence of an ongoing transformation of self-politics in which the idiotic impulse is redefining our experience of the world. Despite talk of global awareness, the isolated self of the many is all the more effective. It brings about a culture of happy singletons strolling towards a black hole that has become their substitute for society.

Zoran ​Terzic's wide-ranging essay takes up the figure of the idiot and follows its numerous appearances throughout intellectual history in an examination of the "art of the idiotic" that both reflects and transcends the freneticism of the present.

Author: Zoran Terzic
Publisher: Diaphanes
Published: 01/05/2023
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 8.19h x 5.28w x 0.71d
ISBN13: 9783035803679
ISBN10: 3035803676
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Anthropology | Cultural & Social
- Social Science | Popular Culture

About the Author
Zoran Terzic, PhD, born in Banja Luka, studied visual arts in New York and culture theory in Wuppertal. He lives in Berlin. Michael Turnbull is a translator from German into English of texts related to art such as The Moses Complex.