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...
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...
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...
Propaganda for Beginners, Part 4: Propaganda Techniques Inspired by Crime Writing
Part 4 of the series: Propaganda for Beginners. Read Parts 1, 2, and 3.
Teaser
What do the techniques of crime writers, who want to...
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...
Analyzing the construction of victimhood in media war reporting
Victims of violence receive broadly varying types of media attention and representation depending on two factors: One, who perpetrated the violence and two, who...
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...
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...
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...
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...