Consider, for instance, the output since the start of the war of the Trump administration’s official informational sewerage system. JUSTICE THE AMERICAN WAY. The true grotesquery of this war is that it is, on some fundamental level, divorced from narrative and meaning. There is, it seems, no coherent narrative of even narrow US interest in which this war can be placed. Referred to as the “porn music video” (or PMV), it formed out of the annihilating overstimulation of endless online content.

Source: The Irish Times March 14, 2026 16:30 UTC