Fake news som livsstil
Journal: K&K - Kultur og Klasse
Year: 2020

The article presents an updated portrait of the controversial Russian writer and politician, Eduard Limonov (b. 1943), with a view to discussing him as at once an example of and a comment on contemporary conditions for art and politics in Russia under so-called developed Putinism. Based on Judith Butler’s definition of identity as constituted by performative acts, the article analyses Limonov’s varied activities throughout more than half a century as a coherent project insofar as he seems to be