A Player’s Guide to the Post-Truth Condition: The Name of the Game
presents sixteen short, readable chapters designed to leverage our
post-truth condition’s deep historical and philosophical roots into
opportunities for unprecedented innovation and change. Fuller offers a
bracing, proactive and hopeful vision against the tendency to demonize
post-truth as the realm of ‘fake news’ and ‘bullshit’. Where
others see threats to the established order, Fuller sees opportunities
to overturn it. This theme is pursued across many domains, including
politics, religion, the economy, the law, public relations,
journalism, the performing arts and academia, not least academic
science. The red thread running through Fuller’s treatment is that
these domains are games that cannot be easily won unless one can
determine the terms of engagement, which is to say, the ‘name of the
game’. This involves the exercise of ‘modal power’, which is the
capacity to manipulate what people think is possible. Once the
‘necessarily’ true appears to be only ‘contingently’ so, then
the future suddenly becomes a more open space for action. This was
what frightened Plato about the alternative realities persuasively
portrayed by playwrights in ancient Athens. Nevertheless, Fuller
believes that it should be embraced by denizens of today’s
post-truth condition.
Les mer
The Name of the Game
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781785276057
Publisert
2020
Utgave
1. utgave
Utgiver
Ingram Publisher Services UK- Academic
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
Forfatter