Yves Citton: Mythocracy | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9781839766985 | Mythocracy | How Stories Shape Our Worlds | Yves Citton | Taschenbuch

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Beschreibung

Mythocracy examines the narrative mechanisms that script our lives through the stories we tell one another. Digging beneath common anxieties about fake news, Yves Citton looks at the attention economy, which organises our political perceptions around affective attractors. These are much more powerful than the truth value of any given narrative. The time has come for the left to reclaim the power of myth from reactionary populism.

Über den Autor

Yves Citton is professor in Literature and Media at the Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint Denis, after having previously taught at the University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA (1992-2003) and at the Université Grenoble Alpes (2003-2017). He was Executive Director of the Graduate School (EUR) ArTeC from 2018 to 2021 and is co-editor of the journal Multitudes. He published a dozen books in French, translated in many languages, among which Mediarchy (Polity Press, 2019) and The Ecology of Attention (Polity Press, 2016). His articles are in open access on his website [...]

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: ‘Scripting’ and Soft Power

1. Reformulating Our Imaginary of Power
2. Modelling the Circulation of Power
3. Scripting as an Activity

Illustrative Interlude: Scripting from Up There

4. Attractors and Infra-Politics
5. New Demands for Equality

Literary Interlude: From Interrupted Myth to Epic in the Making

6. Renewing Left -Wing Imaginaries

Afterword
Acknowledgements
Index

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2025
Fachbereich:	Allgemeines
Genre:	Importe , Philosophie
Jahrhundert:	Antike
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Thema:	Lexika
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9781839766985
ISBN-10:	1839766980
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Citton, Yves
Übersetzung:	Broder, David
Hersteller:	Verso Books
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	209 x 138 x 18 mm
Von/Mit:	Yves Citton
Erscheinungsdatum:	01.04.2025
Gewicht:	0,222 kg