[Linganth] Noelle Mole Liston's book

[Ilana Gershon]

Dear Colleagues,
Jonah Rubin asks Noelle Mole Liston to reflect on her book, The Truth
Society, today.

https://campanthropology.org

Best,
Ilana

Press blurb:

Noelle Molé Liston's *The Truth Society* seeks to understand how a period
of Italian political spectacle, which regularly blurred fact and fiction,
has shaped how people understand truth, mass-mediated information,
scientific knowledge, and forms of governance. Liston scrutinizes Italy's
late twentieth-century political culture, particularly the impact of the
former prime minister and media mogul Silvio Berlusconi. By doing so, she
examines how this truth-bending political era made science, logic, and
rationality into ideas that needed saving.

With the prevalence of fake news and our seeming lack of shared reality in
the "post-truth" world, many people struggle to figure out where this new
normal came from. Liston argues that seemingly disparate events and
practices that have unfolded in Italy are historical reactions to
mediatized political forms and particular, cultivated ways of knowing.
Politics, then, is always sutured to how knowledge is structured,
circulated, and processed. *The Truth Society* offers Italy as a case study
for understanding the remaking of politics in an era of disinformation.
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