dc.contributor.author | Nicholls, Brett | |
dc.date.available | 2018-04-04T23:44:45Z | |
dc.date.copyright | 2016-12 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Nicholls, B. (2016). Baudrillard in a ‘Post-Truth’World: Groundwork for a Critique of the Rise of Trump. MEDIANZ: Media Studies Journal of Aotearoa New Zealand, 16(2), 7–30. | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 2382-218X | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10523/7989 | |
dc.description.abstract | This paper takes the view that Baudrillard’s work on the West’s fascination with reality is as insightful as ever. The paper traces the rise of this fascination across four areas of his work: the critique of the commodity form, the rise of objective reality, hyperreality, and integral reality. I then argue that Baudrillard provides us with a means for adequately understanding and engaging with the current post-truth scandal. My claim is that the essence of’ ‘Trumpism’ is not to be found in a lack of reality, the notion that there is not enough truth in play; it is to be found in the overproduction of a surplus reality that veers out of control into hitherto unknown forms of absurdity, or, in Baudrillard’s terms, into integral reality. | en_NZ |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_NZ |
dc.publisher | Public Knowledge Project | en_NZ |
dc.relation.ispartof | MEDIANZ: Media Studies Journal of Aotearoa New Zealand | en_NZ |
dc.subject | Baudrillard | en_NZ |
dc.subject | Donald Trump | en_NZ |
dc.subject | Zizek | en_NZ |
dc.subject | Post-truth | en_NZ |
dc.subject | Simulation | en_NZ |
dc.title | Baudrillard in a ‘Post-Truth’World: Groundwork for a Critique of the Rise of Trump | en_NZ |
dc.type | Journal Article | en_NZ |
dc.date.updated | 2018-04-04T21:15:45Z | |
otago.school | Media, Film and Communication | en_NZ |
otago.relation.issue | 2 | en_NZ |
otago.relation.volume | 16 | en_NZ |
otago.bitstream.endpage | 30 | en_NZ |
otago.bitstream.startpage | 7 | en_NZ |
otago.openaccess | Open | en_NZ |
dc.rights.statement | Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal. The work may not be used for commercial purposes. The work may not be altered, transformed, or built upon. | en_NZ |
dc.description.refereed | Peer Reviewed | en_NZ |