ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book outlines a series of conceptual diagrams of an ethos of modernity a stance towards life, truth, and authority that was styled in the humorous literature, performances and practices that were associated with the cabarets artistiques of fin-de-sicle Montmartre. It provides a starting point for a wider project of analyzing the affective, perceptual and representational aesthetics of authority in the modern city, and how these forms of authority generate new experiences of truth through the dynamics of embodied experience. Montmartres artistic and anarchist community seem to have had faith in the ability of art to stylize, on its own, a new form of political community. In the cultural biopolitics of the late nineteenth century, people see for the first time a series of attempts to challenge and reconfigure the emerging biopolitical discourses that would define the city of the twentieth century.
