Tag Archives: post-truth
Truth & Consequences: 'Often Forgotten': Uncomfortable and Approximate Truths*
Stephen Reyna
‘…anosognosia, a useful psychiatric term for a lack of awareness of one’s own condition’ (McEwan, 2005: 74) This blog post assists in the treatment of a malady threatening social and cultural anthropology: epistemic anosognosia. If you got it, watch out! It’s debilitating. The essay proposes that certain anthropologists suffer from it and suggests that theRead more
Futile Political Gestures: Performing Futility: Post-Truth and the Politics of Insincerity
Natalie C. Morningstar
‘Invisible and free!’ So begins one of the more chaotic scenes in Bulgakov’s (1997[1966]) The Master and Margarita. After being granted the gift of flight, Margarita embarks on a euphoric rampage through Moscow’s city streets. Unleashed but unseen by her targets, she revels in mostly harmless mayhem. An absurdist account of life under Stalin’s rule,Read more