Do We Need a Popular Front Against Contemporary Fascism?
‘Fascism’ today is an invective and a tool of propaganda rather than a concept helping us to understand matters. Yet the lockdowns in the name of...
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...
Cancelling Habermas
On Feb. 15, 2023, left-liberal newspaper Die Zeit published an op-ed by Eva Illouz with the meaningful title ‘I long for a total victory’...
Propaganda in the Interpretations and Representations of the Gaza War
The event that began with the Hamas attack on Israel was narrated in Western mass media and mainstream politics as shocking the world by...
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...
Propaganda for Beginners, Part 5: Dehumanising and Humanising in Propaganda
Part 5 of the series “Propaganda for Beginners”: Read Parts 1, 2, 3 and 4.
In the world of propaganda and psychological warfare, language and visual representation...
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...
Guy Debord’s Warning of “The Role of the Expert”: A Philosophical Perspective on the...
Abstract
Why are we bombarded by fact-checks and “anti-disinformation” efforts in our timeline scrolls? When one reads news, further, they often find that “experts” are...
Orisanmi Burton’s ‘Tip of the Spear’: a review by Professor Jared Ball
I decenter these duly noted, juridically mediated, and scholastically authorized sources of evidence, focussing instead on “discredited,” “inadmissible,” and “untrustworthy” modes of knowledge, analysis...
Propaganda Trudeau Style
“What do you do with someone with an allergy? What do you do with someone who’s immunocompromised, or someone who for religious reasons…or deep...