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Mythocracy
How Stories Shape Our Worlds
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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...
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Mythocracy
Harnessing the power of storytelling for political progress
Harnessing the power of storytelling for political progress
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Description
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.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781839766985
Publisher: Verso Books
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 01 April 2025
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Verso Books
Contributors:
- Translated by David Broder
- Translated by David Broder
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 15.0mm
Width: 140.0mm
Height: 210.0mm
Weight: 225g
Pages: 240
About the Author
Yves Citton is professor in Literature and Media at the UniversitΓ© Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint Denis, after having previously taught at the University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA (1992-2003) and at the UniversitΓ© 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 www.yvescitton.net.
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