No Philosopher King: An Everyday Guide To Art And Life Under Trump

$24.00
by Minus Plato

Spring 2019
English
Paperback
6 x 8 in.
347 pages

Drawing wisdom from ancient philosophers and poets, and the spirited rebellion of the contemporary arts scene, Minus Plato makes daily musings and ruminations concerning the state of global politics and the duty of citizens to dissent. This book records a year of critical thinking and the ensuing conversations, examining our everyday lives under the Trump administration, so that we may responsibly affect the future.

“No Philosopher King is not a book. It takes the shape of one – words across sequential pages – but it is in fact something far less recognizable, far more fluid. Here is a project that is part illustrated cultural essay, part daybook, part art criticism, part classical discourse, part resistance manifesto. As if to say: extraordinary times need be met with experimental form. Minus Plato has retained the essence of its original life, as a blog: it is personal, it is shared, it is urgent, and we may move through it in any way we please. At its (wanting, radical) heart, this is a treatise on how we might consider contemporary art – during and after documenta 14 – as a flawed and powerful tool of dissent and responsibility in the age of Trump.”

— Carmen Winant, artist and professor at Ohio State University

“In the Trump Era there is both unspeakable suffering and the impossibility of its full articulation with the negation of the very existence of ‘truth’. No Philosopher King with its ambition and demand for truth redresses this absence.”

— Jeanette Doyle, artist and Fiosraigh Scholar at the Graduate School of Creative Arts and Media. Dublin, Ireland.