I’m starting a new project with Tom Drayton at UEL. Gaming Democracy: Participatory Performance Strategies for Countering Far-Right Politics is investigating how online communities and ‘game-play’ processes are weaponised by fascist and white supremacists groups to radicalise, recruit and terrorise. …
Tag: Post-truth
Hannah Arendt and Digital Thinking
I’ve recently read Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism. It was a bestselling title on Amazon in 2017, a fact attributed to Trump’s election. But as the book makes clear totalitarian politics has no single or clear origin. No one …
The Politics of Denialism is Becoming the New Normal
Phrases like post-truth and fake news are closely associated with Brexit and Trump, but the antecedent of modern disinformation is Holocaust denial.
Holocaust denial is as much about the tarnishing of expertise as it is an anti-semitic conspiracy theory. But …