The Truth Society
Science, Disinformation, and Politics in Berlusconi's Italy
Seiten
2020
Cornell University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5017-5079-3 (ISBN)
Cornell University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5017-5079-3 (ISBN)
Noelle Molé Liston's The Truth Society seeks to understand how a period of Italian political spectacle, which regularly blurred fact and fiction, has shaped how people understand truth, mass-mediated information, scientific knowledge, and forms of governance. Liston scrutinizes Italy's late twentieth-century political culture, particularly the impact of the former prime minister and media mogul Silvio Berlusconi. By doing so, she examines how this truth-bending political era made science, logic, and rationality into ideas that needed saving.
With the prevalence of fake news and our seeming lack of shared reality in the "post-truth" world, many people struggle to figure out where this new normal came from. Liston argues that seemingly disparate events and practices that have unfolded in Italy are historical reactions to mediatized political forms and particular, cultivated ways of knowing. Politics, then, is always sutured to how knowledge is structured, circulated, and processed. The Truth Society offers Italy as a case study for understanding the remaking of politics in an era of disinformation.
With the prevalence of fake news and our seeming lack of shared reality in the "post-truth" world, many people struggle to figure out where this new normal came from. Liston argues that seemingly disparate events and practices that have unfolded in Italy are historical reactions to mediatized political forms and particular, cultivated ways of knowing. Politics, then, is always sutured to how knowledge is structured, circulated, and processed. The Truth Society offers Italy as a case study for understanding the remaking of politics in an era of disinformation.
Noelle Molé Liston is a Senior Lecturer at New York University. She is the author of Labor Disorders in Neoliberal Italy. Follow her on X @MoleListon.
Introduction
1. Manifest Disguise and Mediatized Politics
2. The Soldiers of Rationality
3. The Rise of Algorithm Populism
4. The Trial against Disinformation
5. Scientific Anesthetization in the Anthropocene
Conclusion: Mirrored Window World
| Erscheinungsdatum | 05.10.2020 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Expertise: Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge |
| Zusatzinfo | 14 Halftones, black and white |
| Verlagsort | Ithaca |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 454 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Technikgeschichte |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5017-5079-8 / 1501750798 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5017-5079-3 / 9781501750793 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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