Overview
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
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
About this book
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.
Reviews
“The cases addressed in this collection provide cogent perspectives on our current moment. Drawing inspiration from traditional cultural and communication studies, as well as a host of contemporary critical theories, this book teaches us how to understand the media within our current struggles for hegemony. The book revitalizes the ground-breaking achievements of cultural studies, and its conception of the conjuncture to think our media struggles today. It is sure to enlighten readers about how we might think our media conjuncture as a way of understanding our historical present.” (Matthew Flisfeder, Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Communications, The University of Winnipeg, Canada)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Rosemary Overell is Lecturer at the University of Otago, New Zealand. She is the author of Affective Intensities in Extreme Music Scenes (2014) and co-editor, with Catherine Dale, of Orienting Feminisms (2018). Rosemary is also a regular contributor to un Magazine and tweets @muzaken.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Post-Truth and the Mediation of Reality
Book Subtitle: New Conjunctures
Editors: Rosemary Overell, Brett Nicholls
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25670-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-25669-2Published: 05 November 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-25672-2Published: 05 November 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-25670-8Published: 21 October 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 215
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 11 illustrations in colour
Topics: Media and Communication, Journalism, Cultural Anthropology