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.
Jayson Harsin is Associate Professor of Media and Politics and Director of the Center for Media, Communication & Global Change, American University of Paris. He has published widely on the relationship of deception, popular media, and politics, in the context of cultural globalization.
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