Images from Paradise e-bog

Drawing upon the disciplines of politics, anthropology, psychoanalysis, aesthetics and cinema studies, Salg presents a new way of looking at the "e;art of European unification."e; The official visual narratives of the European Union constitute the main object of inquiry - the iconography of the new series of euro banknotes and the videos through which the supranational elite seek to generate "e;collective effervescence,"e; allow for a European carnival to take place, and prompt citizens to pledge allegiance to the sacred dogma of the "e;ever closer union,"e; thereby strengthening the mythical sources of the organization's legitimacy. The author seeks to illustrate how and why the federalist utopia turned into a political soteriology after the outbreak of the 2008 crisis.