Abstract
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.
• Critically interrogates mediated experiences, subjects and technologies, considering key thinkers such as Lacan, Laruelle and Baudrillard
• Provides a broad and varied discourse on mediated realities, with essays on Postmodernism, ‘hashtag politics’, and the Trump presidency, among others
• Uses the cultural studies framework of conjectural analysis to prompt contemporary and timely discussion of the present moment
The chapters in this book are free to read via Springer Nature SharedIt Initiative using the chapter links below:
Introduction: Post-truth and the Mediation of Reality pp.1-12 - Rosemary Overell, Brett Nicholls. https://rdcu.be/euofF
Fake President: Telemorphosis and the Performance of Grotesque Power pp.15-37 - Laurie Ouellette. https://rdcu.be/euogi
White Noise of Desire pp.39-55 - Cindy Zeiher. https://rdcu.be/euogk
Postmodernism in the Twenty-First Century: Jordan Peterson, Jean Baudrillard and the Problem of Chaos pp.57-77 - Brett Nicholls. https://rdcu.be/euogm
Truth, Post-truth, Non-truth: New Aestheticized Digital Regime of Truth pp.79-103 - Nina Cvar, Robert Bobnič. https://rdcu.be/euogp
The Reveal of the Real: Fact-Checking and ‘Not-Tags’ in the Current Conjuncture pp.107-130 - Rosemary Overell. https://rdcu.be/euogu
Veils of Prejudice: Race and Class in the Current Conjuncture pp.131-150 - R. Harindranath. https://rdcu.be/euogw
Pre-truth, Post-truth and the Present: Jacques Lacan and the Real Horror of Contemporary Knowledge pp.153-175 - Scott Wilson. https://rdcu.be/euogC
Civility, Subversion and Technocratic Class Consciousness: Reconstituting Truth in the Journalistic Field pp.177-202 - Olivier Jutel. https://rdcu.be/euogE