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Corporate Media

Deception through omission: ‘The War on the OPCW’

An academic paper from the University of New South Wales in Australia describes four incidents where a virtual firehose of Russian propaganda was directed...

Academia

Who Guards NewsGuard? Academics asleep on the job

Recently, I was reading ‘an important paper’ recommended by a philosopher who specialises in epistemology (the study of how we know what we think...

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Society

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...

“Want a Civilized World? You Won’t Get There Watching Netflix”

Editors Note: This interview with Dr. Matt Alford, co-producer on Theaters of War (2022) and The Writer with No Hands (2014), was originally conducted...

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...

Taking Tucker Carlson Seriously, Part One: The Production of Conspiracy Discourse in Modern Propaganda Mills

“ensorship now defines America's public conversation. We spent an awful lot of time complaining about that on the show. We probably don't spend enough...

Belle Epoque

“Three hundred miles beyond the end of telegraph cables and mail-boat lines, the haggard utilitarian lies of our civilization wither and die, to be...

Theory & Practice

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...

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