Fabricating Publics: The Dissemination of Culture in the Post-Truth Era

Mieke Bal; Bill Balaskas; David M. Berry; Ferry Biedermann; Ramon Bloomberg; Natalie Bookchin; Forensic Architecture; Charlie Gere; Alexandra Juhasz; Steven Henry Madoff; Nat Muller; Carolina Rito; Emily Rosamond; Christine Ross; Gregory Sholette; Terry Smith; UBERMORGEN; Santiago Zabala

Fabricating Publics: The Dissemination of Culture in the Post-Truth Era

Mieke Bal, Bill Balaskas (Editor), David M. Berry, Ferry Biedermann, Ramon Bloomberg, Natalie Bookchin, Forensic Architecture, Charlie Gere, Alexandra Juhasz, Steven Henry Madoff, Nat Muller, Carolina Rito (Editor), Emily Rosamond, Christine Ross, Gregory Sholette, Terry Smith, UBERMORGEN, Santiago Zabala

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Abstract

Fabricating Publics explores how cultural producers and institutions perceive their role in the post-truth era. The essays comprising the publication will collectively attempt to reposition contemporary culture in relation to the notion of the ‘public’ and its political function. Within an increasingly complex economic, social, and technological environment, the book will address the multiple challenges posed for artists, curators, and cultural activists by the conditions of post-factuality. Do cultural institutions have the practical means and the ethical authority to fight back? What narratives of dissent are cultural producers developing, and how do they choose to communicate them? Could new media technologies still be considered as instruments of democratising culture, or have they been irrevocably associated with an ‘empty’ populism? Do ‘counter-publics’ exist, and how are they formed? In the end, is ‘truth’ a notion that could be reclaimed through contemporary culture?

Original language	English
Place of Publication	Liverpool
Publisher	Open Humanities Press
Number of pages	258
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-78542-104-4
ISBN (Print)	978-1-78542-105-1
Publication status	Published - 1 Dec 2021

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Name	DATA Browser
Publisher	Open Humanities Press
Volume	7

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Keywords

post-truth
audiences
museums
contemporary culture
contemporary art
curating
the curatorial

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Visual Arts and Performing Arts

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Bal, M., Balaskas, B. (Ed.), Berry, D. M., Biedermann, F., Bloomberg, R., Bookchin, N., Forensic Architecture, Gere, C., Juhasz, A., Madoff, S. H., Muller, N., Rito, C. (Ed.), Rosamond, E., Ross, C., Sholette, G., Smith, T., UBERMORGEN, & Zabala, S. (2021). Fabricating Publics: The Dissemination of Culture in the Post-Truth Era. (DATA Browser; Vol. 7). Open Humanities Press.

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