On the question of truth in the era of Trump / / edited by Faith Agostinone-Wilson.

Using a range of critical perspectives, On the Question of Truth in the Era of Trump closely examines notions of “truth in crisis” leading up to and after the election of Donald Trump. The authors explore how truth is constructed along the lines of race, social class, and gender as filtered through...

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Superior document:Critical Media Literacies Series ; Volume 5
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill Sense,, [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Critical media literacies series ; 5.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword : the (not so) strange rise of Donald J. Trump / Mike Cole
  • Introduction / Faith Agostinone-Wilson
  • Endless babbling and the contradictory nature of truth in the rise of Trump / Austin Pickup
  • Post-truth in the age of Trump : ideology from right to left after fascism and Althusser / Jones Irwin
  • Twitter and Trumpism : epistemological concerns in the post-truth era / Eric C. Sheffield
  • The populist masquerade of attributing Trump's win to "economic anxiety" among white voters / Faith Agostinone-Wilson
  • The gospel according to white Christian nationalism : religion, race, and nation in the Trump era / Jeremy T. Godwin
  • White stupidification and the need for dialectical thought in the age of Trump / Daniel Ian Rubin
  • Conclusion / Faith Agostinone-Wilson
  • Afterword : ecological catastrophe in the fourth industrial revolution : the case for eco-socialism and the role of the media / Mike Cole.