Natalie Bookchin in Conversation with Alexandra Juhasz: Performance of Race and White Hegemony on YouTube
This book explores how cultural practitioners and institutions perceive their role in the post-truth era, by repositioning their work in relation to the notion of the “public”. The book addresses 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 against the proliferation of “alternative facts” in politics, as well as within all aspects of our lives? What narratives of dissent are cultural practitioners developing, and how do they choose to communicate them? Could new media technologies still be considered as instruments of democratizing culture, or have they been irrevocably associated with ‘empty’ populism? Do “counter-publics” exist and, if yes, how are they formed? In the end, is “truth” a notion that could be reclaimed through contemporary culture?
Published in Fabricating Publics: The Dissemination of Culture in the Post-truth Era, 2021
Bill Balaskas and Carolina Rito, eds
Topics: Activist Media | Critical Internet Studies | Interviews | Works from 2021 |