{"product_id":"paranoid-publics-psychopolitics-of-truth-hardback-9781531511869","title":"Paranoid Publics; Psychopolitics of Truth (Hardback) 9781531511869","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eParanoid Publics\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003ePsychopolitics of Truth\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eZahid R. Chaudhary (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781531511869\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 4 November 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e224 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 1.5 cm, 0.354 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Chaudhary's theoretical dexterity and brilliant mapping of the political symptomology of cultural phenomena together render \u003ci\u003eParanoid Publics\u003c\/i\u003e indispensable for grasping the contemporary political landscape. Paranoia, he reminds us, is a feeling, one that splinters into disavowal, anxiety, projection, and pleasure, organizing ‘truths’ - from anti-vaxxing to Havana syndrome - that we dismiss at our peril. A must read!\" - Wendy Brown, Institute for Advanced Study\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\"If there’s anything the U.S. presidential election of 2024 made clear, it’s the urgency of thinking politics and psychoanalysis together. \u003ci\u003eParanoid Publics \u003c\/i\u003ecaptures, with the precision of an x-ray, the metastases of truth in our moment, pinpointing the psychic pressures and unacknowledged libidinal pulsions that readings of the social body ignore to their detriment - and to ours.\" - Lee Edelman, author of \u003ci\u003eBad Education\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"By boldly foregoing the usual discrepancy between a subjective psychoanalytic category and collective life as such, and deftly traversing critical theory debates, mass culture practices, social media entrepreneurships, and algorithmic governance mechanisms alike, Chaudhary delivers an incisive dissection of the heterogeneous appeals to \"truth\" that bind knowing, belief, and political power play today. This book is a work of insight, imagination, and intellectual sophistication.\" - Rey Chow, author of \u003ci\u003eA Face Drawn in Sand: Humanistic Inquiry and Foucault in the Present\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eParanoid Publics \u003c\/i\u003eis an important and original contribution to our understanding of today’s political movements. The book takes up a fascinating topic - the current political status of ‘truth’ - and shows how a psychoanalytic reading of its many manifestations help clarify its operations and its effects. A persuasive and subtle book.\" - Joan Wallach Scott, Institute for Advanced Study\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eParanoid Publics\u003c\/i\u003e is a smart, original, and provocative take on some of the most pressing political questions of our time. Chaudhary examines the collective libidinal life of outrage, paranoia, scandal, and other negative emotions that have accompanied the ongoing assault on truth. He shows how psychoanalysis can help explain the libidinal eruptions of energy that have characterized the contemporary political horizon as truth and reason have waned.\" - Camille Robcis, Columbia University\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eFacts and established truths are regularly denied in contemporary life. This situation has brought paranoid politics into the mainstream, from conspiracy theories like QAnon, to sex panics and assaults on public health measures, to election denialism and the rise of vigilante militias. \u003ci\u003eParanoid Publics\u003c\/i\u003e analyzes these phenomena as psychosocial realities enmeshed with emerging ways of determining truth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eToday’s paranoia cannot simply be blamed on the rise of social media or the recent surge of populist anger. Rather, as Chaudhary shows, both are fueled by preexisting psychosocial processes. Applying psychodynamics to analyze truth and politics, \u003ci\u003eParanoid Publics\u003c\/i\u003e foregrounds unconscious demands, wishes, and compulsions. Against the hope that progressive economic policies might dispel widespread disorientation and disillusionment, Chaudhary reveals how psychic realities mark politics as deeply as do self-interest and class dynamics.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChaudhary takes up and reinvents psychoanalytic concepts to analyze how, for example, the personal liberty exercised through vaccine exemptions is paradoxically grounded in submission to the authority of the family and the state. Such politically consequential attitudes concerning truth emerge from a social order that they proceed to challenge. Making a case for psychosocial understandings of our current historical juncture, \u003ci\u003eParanoid Publics\u003c\/i\u003e radically expands our notion of the political.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIntroduction:\u003c\/b\u003e Psychopolitics of Truth   1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e1 \u003c\/b\u003eExposure   31\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e2 \u003c\/b\u003eParanoia   54\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e3 \u003c\/b\u003eFreedom   82\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e4 \u003c\/b\u003eHysteria   109\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCoda \u003c\/b\u003e  145\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAcknowledgments \u003c\/i\u003e  149\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNotes \u003c\/i\u003e  151\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndex \u003c\/i\u003e  175\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52653253263640,"sku":"9781531511869","price":53.28,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/paranoid-publics-psychopolitics-of-truth-hardback-9781531511869","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}