Nonfiction @newyorkermag @artforum, @nytimes, others. Fiction @bombmag, @thedrift_mag, @heavy_traffic_mag, others. Also @Gideon___Jacobs on IG. Links in bio.
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Performing a lecture tomorrow on our inflection point in the history of images using monologue, meditation, video, and AI. Tomorrow at @NY_StudioSchool. RSVP here. nyss.org/lecture/gideon-jaco…
Incumbent is never ideal position for Trump. He cares about image, not product, good at sales, bad at business. Very difficult to sell Trump Steaks to people currently struggling to chew them.
Spoke to my old friend Geoff Dyer for @heavytrafficmag
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New essay and podcast episode with @Gideon___Jacobs about his article for @spike_art “All Images Are Quite Useless Now” and whether the collapse of our old relationship to images might actually be liberating.
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Another paragraph from new essay out last week from Spike. Read rest here:
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A paragraph from new essay up this week at @spike_art. Read rest here:
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His essay “All Images Are Quite Useless Now” is now online!
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“The hope, then, is that AI could force our senses of self, our anchors of meaning, and our notions of truth, like crabs whose shells so clearly no longer fit, out of our mirrors and screens.” – @Gideon___Jacobs
“Masruq saw pictures on his terrace and said, ‘I heard Abdullah saying that he heard the Prophet saying, ‘The people who will receive the severest punishment from Allah will be the picture makers.’’” -Sahih al-Bukhari 5950
Friday, helping @trevorpaglen launch his new book.
As with most behaviors, people will only start using their phones less if/when it becomes obvious that people want to fuck them less because they’re always on their phone.
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“Maybe the closest thing the doomscrolling laity gets to a quotidian realization of enlightenment or the Kingdom of Heaven, is not the end of images but the end of the reign of images.” – @Gideon___Jacobs in our Spring 2026 print issue, “Everything’s Computer” – out now!
IMAGES: A Show is coming to New Theater Hollywood March 20, 22, 24, 25. Tickets--> newtheaterhollywood.ludus.co…
Written and performed by GIDEON JACOBS
Directed by RUBY MCCOLLISTER
Featuring JAY ISRAELSON & HALEY STIEL
Video by JAK RITGER & CASSANDRA JENKINS
The Julia Stoschek Foundation has invited me, @DeanKissick, and @David_Rudnick to give a talk titled “The End Of Images” on March 15th at the Variety Arts Theater in Los Angeles. It will start at 8pm, just after the Academy Awards. “That’s all folks.”
For those who find it difficult to read in our burgeoning neo-oral/aural era, an audio version of my essay "MAGA as Fan Fiction," edited by @LILINTERNET for @newmodels_io.
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Thank you @syllabus_tweets for choosing "MAGA as Fan Fiction" as essay of the week.
Before becoming the head of the FBI, Kash Patel wrote a children’s book trilogy full of MAGA conspiracies. Our essay of the week tracks how right-wing politics pivoted from myth-making to mass-market fantasy.
By @Gideon___Jacobs in @LAReviewofBooks
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@Gideon___Jacobs on Trump's image machine: "The fiery movement to MAGA was a classic example of soteriology and messianism taken too literally, an absence of the simultaneity of metaphor, people living in story rather than with stories." lareviewofbooks.org/article/…
ALT An AI image of Trump as a Sith Lord with eagles and flags behind him
Out today w/ @LAReviewofBooks, the final installment of what we are retroactively calling a three-part series. All these essays have been about our species' relationship to images. All try to frame DJT as a painful, distracting symptom. God bless🇺🇸. lareviewofbooks.org/article/…
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NEW POD ALERT: We spoke with artist and writer @Gideon___Jacobs about the political aesthetics of the Zohran campaign—and how reality, in a post-Trump and post-Musk universe, is beginning to bend to the rules of fiction
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"The image had overpowered reality in an unfair fight." In the wake of the 2024 election, @Gideon___Jacobs peered into the uncanny valley of Donald Trump. lareviewofbooks.org/article/…
