But the ensuing theatrics (naturally filmed for posterity) were also of a piece with the festival itself, perfectly tuned to its upside-down logic.
That's chiefly because, in the upside-down logic imposed by the crisis, Greenberg has a point.
This feeling of madness, of an upside-down logic inherent in experiencing systemic oppression, is central to Bopape's artwork.
It surprises me that during these times of economic distress across our country, taxpayers don't protest with the upside-down logic of spending more money to lock people in cages while spending less money to educate people.
Our report turns that logic upside down – Africa has been a net creditor to the rest of the world for decades," said Raymond Baker, president of GFI.
Milosz turned this presumption of "historical logic" upside down: if Communism now ruled Eastern Europe, it was not because of the laws of history but because the Russians had burned the house down.
By turning some of the personalization logic upside down, news organizations could create a machine learning-powered recommendation engine that amplifies diversity.
American voters have turned conventional wisdom and political logic upside down in the lead up to the 2016 primary, blowing open the doors of the proverbial smoke-filled backrooms and letting loose a parade of White Supremacists and Socialists, and one slightly addled neurosurgeon, across the frozen plains of Iowa and New Hampshire.
Their logic is upside down".
To me, that logic was upside down.
In such a world, a world of deflation, financial logic gets turned upside down, and nasty things happen.
