Justin Bieber losing his swag

"This store window mannequin, this automaton, this sylph," who is "  also a man,“ in whom  "  one of the most intense aspects of the modern malaise is embodied  "  is how the writer Michel Leiris described Fred Astaire. Bruce Hainley adopts the seductive form of Leiris’s 1935 text to consider another public figure – one whose activities, unlike the  "  very special brand of frivolity" Leiris observed Astaire perform, have become ominously inconclusive, however omnipresent. 