Screen Spectacles: Rally Imagery as Disinfolklore

Trump launched his campaign rally with January 6 insurrectionists singing from prison on cell phone while images of the January 6 rioters played on the big screen behind him at his rally. Can you believe that? This is like something out of a faery tale — a bad faery tale.

Source: Archetypal Disinfolklore Literacy

The political rally as visual Disinfolklore spectacle: curated images on giant screens, combined with live audio, producing a collective emotional experience. The imagery is not decorative — it is the mechanism. The visual meme (images of insurrectionists) installed on a screen at scale becomes a Spectacle that transforms the audience into passive recipients of an archetypal narrative.

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