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Being at Large - Freedom in the Age of Alternative Facts (Paperback)
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Being at Large - Freedom in the Age of Alternative Facts (Paperback)
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Politicians and philosophers presenting themselves as the ultimate
bearers of truth and reality have created unprecedented
technological, cultural, and political framings. This new order
conspires to undermine the interpretive practices of open-ended
critique, normalizing a sense of threat to preserve control. The
greatest emergency has become the absence of emergencies. Tracing
an intellectual alliance between academics such as Jordan Peterson
and Christina Hoff Sommers and right-wing populist politicians such
as Donald Trump and Marine Le Pen, this book denounces framings
that make a claim to objectivity. With the help of contemporary
thinkers including Bruno Latour, Judith Butler, and Giorgio
Agamben, as well as discussion of the Cambridge Analytica
whistleblower Christopher Wylie and the emergency of biodiversity
loss due to climate change, Santiago Zabala illustrates that the
twenty-first-century question is not whether we can be free, but
how to be at large - unconstrained by the new realist order. Being
at Large demonstrates the anarchic power of hermeneutics, calling
for interpretive disruptions of the authoritarian narrative as a
way of reclaiming freedom in the age of alternative facts.
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