The Neopopular Bubble : : Speculating on "the People" in Late Modern Democracy / / Péter Csigó.
The common critique of media- and ratings-driven politics envisions democracy falling hostage to a popularity contest. By contrast, the following book reconceives politics as a speculative Keynesian beauty contest that alienates itself from the popular audience it ceaselessly targets. Political acto...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Budapest ;, New York : : Central European University Press, , [2017] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (426 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- Table of Contents
- List of Online Appendices
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Collective Speculation in Mediatized Populist Democracy
- Part 1 The Speculative Media System
- 1. Speculation and Liquidity in Mediatized Politics and Marketized Finance
- 2. The Rise of the Fifth Estate
- 3. Theorizing Collective Mythmaking on Media and Markets
- Part 2. The Cultural Autonomy of Neopopular Mythmaking
- Introduction to Part 2
- 4. Mythicizing Popular Media in Academia
- 5. The Myth of “Active Control” in Media-Interpreting Industries
- Part 3. The Counterperformativity of Neopopular Mythmaking
- Introduction to Part 3
- 6. When Being Popular Is Dangerous: The Case of a Myth- Driven Political Campaign
- 7. Latent Events in a Postnormal Media Environment
- Conclusion: The Dialectic of Liquid Modernity and the Crisis of Democracy
- Appendix
- References
- Index