The Tail Wags the Dog: Governance by Narrative Control
Propaganda is endemic to politics, economics, and culture in mass society. Any attempt to make sense of the modern world must take propaganda into...
The Binary Narratives of the Rules Based Order’s Regime Change Propaganda Against Georgia
In the South Caucasus, the small state of Georgia has re-entered the news cycle of the Rules Based Order as being a problematic issue...
The ‘Marxist History’ War – the Struggle for History versus Interpretation
Since the end of the Cold War, Americans have increasingly used the terms 'Communist', 'socialist', or 'Marxist' as forms of slander to conjure up...
Between Administration and Society: Camus, Plagues, and Coronavirus
Abstract: This article examines the relevance of Albert Camus’s novel, The Plague, for understanding the rationales and actions taken by state actors in the CoVid-19 crisis. Because...
The End of Pluralism and the Decline of Soft Power
“Hitler, Stalin, and Mao all possessed a great deal of soft power in the eyes of their acolytes, but that did not make it...
What we don’t know is killing us: The urgency of propaganda study under COVID
For those of us who study propaganda critically, and seek to do this all-important work as public intellectuals, these last two years have been...
Plato’s Wine Cave
“The opposite of knowledge is not ignorance, but deceit and fraud”
-Jean Baudrillard
If you look at whatever current ‘thing’ is trending right now in the...
Symposium: Prospects for Rights in the COVID-19 Times
Editors’ Note: There is no shortage of scholars who have come out publicly to say that the story of COVID-19 is a story about...
The Atlantic Ruling Class from Milner to Epstein
In what follows, I argue that the social disintegration and the increasingly repressive environment in the West are the consequences of the transnationalisation of...
Russiagate as Big Lie Construction
Introduction
The events commonly described as Russiagate invite invocation of the concept of the “Big Lie,” a lie so staggering in its magnitude and in...