ENG100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Make America Great Again, Megyn Kelly, Existence Precedes Essence
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Donald trump"s exhortation to make america great again is a call to return to notions of reality prevalent in the golden age of imperialism, a time where, as alexander pope put it, whatever is, is right . A time where challenging one"s position in a pre-ordained hierarchy of power is to offend against some overarching plan of the cosmos that must remain intact, or none of us is safe. Jean genet"s the balcony (1955) written in france during the war to retain algeria as a colony, features this same nexus point between an older, imperial method of constructing and sustaining hegemonic discourse and something new on the horizon. The play takes place primarily in a brothel run by madame irma. In the opening three scenes we are shown three clinets all of whom have three different fantasies: one a bishop, the next a.
