Our contemporary moment is preoccupied with arbitrating ‘reality’. With the spectre of buzzwords like ‘fake news’ and ‘post-truth’ we find a scramble to locate or fix some sort of universal ‘real’ beneath what are positioned as ‘fake’ articulations. To engage with this crisis, this collection argues for the importance of a new conjuncture in communication and cultural studies of media. Building on Hall’s understanding of ‘conjuncture’ as a way of grasping moments within hegemonic struggle, the essays suggest that the current moment requires a revitalization of the concept of conjuncture.
Author(s): Rosemary Overell, Brett Nicholls
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2019
Language: English
Pages: 220
Tags: Media And Communication, Post-Truth, Mediation Of Reality
Front Matter ....Pages i-xv
Introduction: Post-truth and the Mediation of Reality (Rosemary Overell, Brett Nicholls)....Pages 1-12
Front Matter ....Pages 13-13
Fake President: Telemorphosis and the Performance of Grotesque Power (Laurie Ouellette)....Pages 15-37
White Noise of Desire (Cindy Zeiher)....Pages 39-55
Postmodernism in the Twenty-First Century: Jordan Peterson, Jean Baudrillard and the Problem of Chaos (Brett Nicholls)....Pages 57-77
Truth, Post-truth, Non-truth: New Aestheticized Digital Regime of Truth (Nina Cvar, Robert Bobnič)....Pages 79-103
Front Matter ....Pages 105-105
The Reveal of the Real: Fact-Checking and ‘Not-Tags’ in the Current Conjuncture (Rosemary Overell)....Pages 107-130
Veils of Prejudice: Race and Class in the Current Conjuncture (R. Harindranath)....Pages 131-150
Front Matter ....Pages 151-151
Pre-truth, Post-truth and the Present: Jacques Lacan and the Real Horror of Contemporary Knowledge (Scott Wilson)....Pages 153-175
Civility, Subversion and Technocratic Class Consciousness: Reconstituting Truth in the Journalistic Field (Olivier Jutel)....Pages 177-202
Back Matter ....Pages 203-215
