Irrational: A Visual Directory to a World with No Reason maps the accelerating breakdown of rational consensus — AI, fake news, post-truth, and new populism — through an extensive series of visual case studies that function as both diagnosis and provocation.
About This Book
Artist Francesco Jodice and curator Francesco Zanot approach irrationality not as aberration but as the defining condition of contemporary life. Structured as a visual directory, the book accumulates case studies rather than building a single linear argument — a form that mirrors its subject. The illustrated essay format allows the authors to move fluidly across AI-generated misinformation, post-truth political culture, and the new populism reshaping democracies, asking not how we return to reason but how we navigate a world in which the balance between reason and chaos has become genuinely unstable. Incisive and visually driven, this is a text for anyone trying to make sense of the present moment.
Key Features
- 176 pages of illustrated essays and visual case studies addressing AI, fake news, post-truth, and new populism
- Created by artist Francesco Jodice and curator Francesco Zanot
- Published by SPBH Editions
What You'll Discover
- How irrationality has moved from the margins to the structural centre of modern politics and media
- The role of AI and algorithmically amplified fake news in accelerating post-truth conditions
- A visual methodology for analysing social and political phenomena that resists straightforward textual categorisation
- How new populism exploits and intensifies the fragile boundary between reason and chaos in contemporary democracies
About the Author
Francesco Jodice is an artist whose practice engages with social landscapes and the forces shaping collective life. Francesco Zanot is a curator and writer with a focus on contemporary photography and visual culture. Together they have assembled a wide-ranging visual argument about irrationality as a systemic condition.
Specifications
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 176
- Dimensions: 10 x 14.8 cm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9781915743916
- Publisher: SPBH Editions
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Designers, artists, curators, and cultural theorists examining how visual culture intersects with post-truth politics, AI, and the collapse of rational consensus.