Re-thinking Mediations of Post-truth Politics and Trust: Globality, Culture, Affect [Hardcover]

This collection reaches beyond fake news and propaganda, beyond misinformation and charismatic liars, to explore the lesser-publicized cultural forms and practices that serve as a cultural infrastructure for post-truth society and politics.

1. Introduction: Post-truth as Globalizing Public Mood (Indefinite, Anxious, Dystopic)

2. Media and the Restyling of Politics 20 years on: A Note. (March 2023)

3. The Post-truth of Rape

4. Wikiality within the Manosphere: Namuwiki, Gender Equalism, and Antifeminist Disinformation in the Post-Truth Era

5. Redpilling and the Archaic Roots of Patriarchal Post-truth

6. The Nordic Far Right and the Production of Gut Feelings

7. Fake Mirror Selfies and the Reproduction of Generalized Cultural Distrust

8. Seeing Through the Fog of War: Assessing Epistemic Burden around Cheapfakes and Deepfakes of Geopolitical Crisis

9. The Truth About Influence

10. Post-truth in Turkey:  Political Economy of media and Articulations of Gender, Ethnicity and Nationalism 

11.  Ethno-nationalist drivers of the Indian media truth-telling crisis

12.  Rumoring as Contention in the Chinese Digital Sphere

Truth hasnt disappeared but it has been weaponised to suit the agendas of both reactionary populists and forgetful liberals. This wonderful and accessible book critiques the assumption that we have only recently entered a dystopian world dominated by fake news and disinformation. Instead, its rich variety of essays place history and power at the heart of the meaning of post-truth, positioning it less as a universal variable than a splƒL