Re: So what's the use of art, theory, activism?

[David Garcia via nettime-l]

Trumpism and other autocratic strongmen of the new era of ‘the deal’ 
routinely claim to be an insurgency displacing elites. But so far the 
most impactful voice I have heard challenging this narrative has been 
Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde, speaking in the post inauguration service. 
She quietly but defiantly forced Trump and his acolytes to endure a 
sermon asking for compassion and mercy for those individuals and 
communities that are being targeted and living in fear. And she did so 
in a manner that highlighted the key way in which Trumpism for all its 
cheap religiosity contradicts the core of the Christian message, which 
contains the weird and radical claim that it is better to endure 
suffering than to be the cause of suffering. In simple language it 
exploded all of Trump’s expedient and hubristic claims of being an 
instrument of divine intervention. Maybe it opens up surprising avenues 
of resistance that escape pocket book politics and the usual sterile 
liberal pieties.

David Garcia
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