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Carole Enahoro
novelist, artist, academic, creative tutoring
Transnational satire and institutional narcissism: comedic approaches to hyperglobalisation, elusive power, and compromised victimhood
The satire of hyperglobalisation – set in a world of multiplicity, fragmentation, and identity confusion – is an emerging field in which the target is not an individual wrongdoer or specific flaw, but the failings of global, interdependent networks of business/politics. To obscure their activities, institutions exploit deflective communication strategies, geographical plurality, and time variance (simultaneity, speed, or its lack.) I adopt the framework of the narcissistic system, another network of corrupted power, to reveal and analyse how transnational satire operates under such complexity.
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