{"product_id":"the-truth-society-science-disinformation-and-politics-in-berlusconis-italy-hardback-9781501750786","title":"The Truth Society; Science, Disinformation, and Politics in Berlusconi's Italy (Hardback) 9781501750786","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Truth Society\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eScience, Disinformation, and Politics in Berlusconi's Italy\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eNoelle Molé Liston (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781501750786\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 15 November 2020\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e240 pages, 14 b\u0026amp;w halftones - 14 Halftones, black and white\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.4 cm, 0.907 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\u003cp\u003eThis notion of truth lies at the heart of Noelle Molé Liston's inquiry into recent developments in Italian politics and society.\u003c\/p\u003e (Survival: Global politics and strategy)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNoelle Molé Liston's \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Truth Society\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e 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.\u003c\/b\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWith 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. \u003ci\u003eThe Truth Society\u003c\/i\u003e offers Italy as a case study for understanding the remaking of politics in an era of disinformation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. Manifest Disguise and Mediatized Politics\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Soldiers of Rationality\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Rise of Algorithm Populism\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Trial against Disinformation\u003cbr\u003e 5. Scientific Anesthetization in the Anthropocene\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: Mirrored Window World\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52607799558424,"sku":"9781501750786","price":85.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-truth-society-science-disinformation-and-politics-in-berlusconis-italy-hardback-9781501750786","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}