The zaniness of everyday life: Trump, Littler and Ngai

IF 1.7 2区社会学 Q1 CULTURAL STUDIES

European Journal of Cultural Studies Pub Date : 2022-12-16 DOI:10.1177/13675494221135053

Francis Russell, Rebecca Persic

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Abstract

This article seeks to build on sociologist Jo Littler’s notion of the normcore plutocrat, that is, a newly emerging political actor who gains power through performances of ordinariness. We do this by expanding Littler’s work through an engagement with Sianne Ngai’s aesthetic theory. Taking up Donald Trump’s performances as a case study, we attempt to think through the relationship between what Ngai refers to as ‘zaniness’ and Littler’s normcore plutocrat. Given Trump’s abnormal and bizarre antics, this article poses the question of what it means to frame his performances as ‘ordinary’. In attempting to answer this question, we relocate Ngai’s work to an explicitly political register in the attempt to show how Trump’s use of language, abysmal business record and faux-masculinity can be understood as revealing something about ordinary neoliberalism.

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日常生活的疯狂:特朗普、利特勒和恩盖

本文试图以社会学家乔·利特勒(Jo Littler)的“normcore财阀”概念为基础，即通过平凡的表现获得权力的新兴政治行为者。我们通过与Sianne Ngai的美学理论的接触来扩展Littler的工作。以唐纳德·特朗普的表演为例，我们试图思考Ngai所说的“疯狂”和Littler所说的普通富豪之间的关系。考虑到特朗普不正常和怪异的行为，这篇文章提出了一个问题，即将他的表演定义为“普通”意味着什么。为了回答这个问题，我们将Ngai的作品重新定位到一个明确的政治领域，试图展示特朗普对语言的使用、糟糕的商业记录和假男子气概如何可以被理解为揭示了普通新自由主义的一些东西。

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European Journal of Cultural Studies Multiple-

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5.50

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4.20%

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期刊介绍： European Journal of Cultural Studies is a major international, peer-reviewed journal founded in Europe and edited from Finland, the Netherlands, the UK, the United States and New Zealand. The journal promotes a conception of cultural studies rooted in lived experience. It adopts a broad-ranging view of cultural studies, charting new questions and new research, and mapping the transformation of cultural studies in the years to come. The journal publishes well theorized empirically grounded work from a variety of locations and disciplinary backgrounds. It engages in critical discussions on power relations concerning gender, class, sexual preference, ethnicity and other macro or micro sites of political struggle.