Jem, Nadia and Keir apply their weird-left lens to the power and potential of shock. Starting with an investigation into economic shock therapy and the way that Trumpism models the concept of shock doctrine, they move onto modern art’s relationship with the shock of the new, from Dada and Eisenstein to gangsta rap and radio shock jocks.

Can you acclimatise yourself to shock either through repetition or training? Can shock be commodified? What other shocks are coming down the pipeline? These ideas and more with musical input from Kylie, Herbie Hancock and Stravinsky.

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Music: Kylie Minogue – Shocked / Sex Pistols – God Save the Queen / The Ramones – (Gimme Gimme) Shock Treatment / The Smiths – There is a Light That Never Goes Out / Glenn Underground – Future Shock / Herbie Hancock – Future Shock / Igor Stravinsky – The Rite of Spring

Books and articles: Naomi Klein – Shock Doctrine / Lawrence Grossberg – Under the Cover of Chaos / Adam Ramsey – ‘How Disinformation Became a Winning Strategy’ / Charles Baudelaire – Les Fleur de Mal / John Carey – The Intellectuals and the Masses / James Joyce – Ulysses / Alvin Toffler – Future Shock

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