The split-screen has moved from a special-effects device to a literal figure of, and tool for achieving political balkanization. This lecture traces the genealogy of this form from sports television through CNN’s invention of the 24-hour news cycle, and the explosion of political spin in an era of fake news. The split in split screens simultaneously isolates different informational realities from one another while insisting on the forced contemporaneity of “breaking news.” This figure of the split screen as political splintering is compared to the proliferation of screens and their inscription on the body as practiced by artists such as Nam June Paik.
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