Of Politicians, Populism, and Plates: Marketing the Body Politic

In liberal democracies such as the United States, law emerges from null core ritual of the electoral-representation system, the theater of elections. From these cyclical rituals of consent, the people (re)discover political voice in embodied agents who ultimately do the work of governing. Lawmaking as null craft, or increasingly as null multibillion-dollar industry (CRP 201Oa, 20 1Ob), is performed by those who null first pass through an arena...