{"id":1565,"date":"2024-09-13T23:37:03","date_gmt":"2024-09-13T22:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/librosdeimpro.com\/?post_type=ao_book&#038;p=1565"},"modified":"2026-07-02T12:29:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T10:29:30","slug":"winging-it-improvs-power-peril-in-the-time-of-trump","status":"publish","type":"ao_book","link":"https:\/\/librosdeimpro.com\/en\/book\/winging-it-improvs-power-peril-in-the-time-of-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Winging It (Randy Fertel)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Winging It: Improv\u2019s Power &#038; Peril in the Time of Trump<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In\u00a0<em>Winging It,<\/em>\u00a0literary scholar and cultural polymath Randy Fertel returns to the interrogation of improvisation he began with his earlier work\u00a0<em>Taste for Chaos<\/em>\u00a0(2015). In this new volume, Fertel explores the wider landscapes of popular culture and public affairs, ranging deftly from the unmediated experience in hook-up culture, psychedelic trips, Fred Astaire\u2019s tap dancing, Frans Hals\u2019s brush strokes, social media, and\u00a0<em>Hamilton<\/em>&#8216;s hip-hop to\u2014last, though alas not least\u2014the performative and demagogic posturing of Donald Trump. The gesture all improvisations share\u2014I will create this on the fly, or as Trump has it, my gut knows more than many brains\u2014defies rationality and elevates embodied emotions, instinct, and intuition, challenging our assumption that everything of value depends upon long study, tradition, and hard work. Claiming to be free of serious purpose, improvisation only pursues pleasure. Or so it says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winging It: Improv\u2019s Power &#038; Peril in the Time of Trump In\u00a0Winging It,\u00a0literary scholar and cultural polymath Randy Fertel returns to the interrogation of improvisation he began with his earlier work\u00a0Taste for Chaos\u00a0(2015). In this new volume, Fertel explores the wider landscapes of popular culture and public affairs, ranging deftly from the unmediated experience in hook-up culture, psychedelic trips, Fred Astaire\u2019s tap dancing, Frans Hals\u2019s brush strokes, social media, and\u00a0Hamilton&#8216;s hip-hop to\u2014last, though alas not least\u2014the performative and demagogic posturing of Donald Trump. The gesture all improvisations share\u2014I will create this on the fly, or as Trump has it, my gut knows more than many brains\u2014defies rationality and elevates embodied emotions, instinct, and intuition, challenging our assumption that everything of value depends upon long study, tradition, and hard work. Claiming to be free of serious purpose, improvisation only pursues pleasure. Or so it says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1568,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"post_tag":[],"topic":[14,12,17],"class_list":["post-1565","ao_book","type-ao_book","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","topic-ensayo","topic-impro-aplicada","topic-english"],"featured_image_url":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/librosdeimpro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Winging_it-Randy_Fertel-150x150.jpg","medium":"https:\/\/librosdeimpro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Winging_it-Randy_Fertel-200x300.jpg","medium_large":"https:\/\/librosdeimpro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Winging_it-Randy_Fertel-768x1152.jpg","large":"https:\/\/librosdeimpro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Winging_it-Randy_Fertel-683x1024.jpg","1536x1536":"https:\/\/librosdeimpro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Winging_it-Randy_Fertel.jpg","2048x2048":"https:\/\/librosdeimpro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Winging_it-Randy_Fertel.jpg"},"post_author":"","assigned_categories":"Essay, Applied Improv, english","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/librosdeimpro.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ao_book\/1565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/librosdeimpro.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ao_book"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/librosdeimpro.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ao_book"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librosdeimpro.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1565"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librosdeimpro.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/librosdeimpro.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librosdeimpro.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_tag?post=1565"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librosdeimpro.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=1565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}