Where Kanye West Says There Are Clicks: "Heil Hitler" as a Pop Culture Spectacle

Kanye West's song "Heil Hitler" shows that if art only acts about the cult around its authors, it becomes a stage for taboo breaking and propaganda. A look at genius cult, media failure and the dangerous aestheticization of the scandal After the Germans had elected him a leader, Hitler was no longer only considered a political genius, even his earlier activities suddenly became interesting: "Between 1933 and 1945 (...) Hitler's paintings were pr…