Post-Truth and the Mediation of Reality: New Conjunctures

Chapter 1: Introduction: Post-Truth and the Mediation of Reality.- Chapter 2: Fake President: Telemorphosis and the performance of grotesque power.- Chapter 3: The White Noise of Desire.- Chapter 4: Postmodernism in the twenty first century: Culture wars, antagonism and the problem of truth.- Chapter 5: Beyond Post-truth as Mediation: From fascism and neoliberalism to fake news.- Chapter 6: The reveal of the Real in hashtag politics.- Chapter 7: Veils of prejudice: race and class in the current conjuncture.- Chapter 8: Pre-truth, Post-truth and the Present: Jacques Lacan and the Real Horror of Contemporary Knowledge.- Chapter 9: Civility, Subversion and Technocratic Class Consciousness: Reconstituting Truth in the Journalistic Field.