Post-Truth and the Mediation of Reality : New Conjunctures /: New Conjunctures. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Rosemary Overell, Brett Nicholls.
• Editors: Overell, Rosemary; Nicholls, Brett
• Contents: Chapter 1: Introduction: Post-Truth and the Mediation of Reality.- Chapter 2: Fake President: Telemorphosis and the performance of grotesque power.- Chapter 3: The White Noise of Desire.- Chapter 4: Postmodernism in the twenty first century: Culture wars, antagonism and the problem of truth.- Chapter 5: Beyond Post-truth as Mediation: From fascism and neoliberalism to fake news.- Chapter 6: The reveal of the Real in hashtag politics.- Chapter 7: Veils of prejudice: race and class in the current conjuncture.- Chapter 8: Pre-truth, Post-truth and the Present: Jacques Lacan and the Real Horror of Contemporary Knowledge.- Chapter 9: Civility, Subversion and Technocratic Class Consciousness: Reconstituting Truth in the Journalistic Field.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2019
• Copyright Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource (215 pages)
• Subjects: Culture-Study and teaching; Language Arts & Disciplines -- Journalism; Social Science -- Anthropology -- Cultural; Media studies; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography; Social Science -- Media Studies; Communication; Journalism; Ethnology
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030256708
• Related ISBNs: 9783030256692
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