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A Playerâs Guide to the Post-Truth Condition: The Name of the Game presents sixteen short, readable chapters designed to leverage our post-truth conditionâs deep historical and philosophical roots into opportunities for unprecedented innovation and change. Fuller offers a bracing, proactive and hopeful vision against the tendency to demonize post-truth as the realm of âfake newsâ and âbullshitâ. Where others see threats to the established order, Fuller sees opportunities to overturn it. This theme is pursued across many domains, including politics, religion, the economy, the law, public relations, journalism, the performing arts and academia, not least academic science. The red thread running through Fullerâs treatment is that these domains are games that cannot be easily won unless one can determine the terms of engagement, which is to say, the âname of the gameâ. This involves the exercise of âmodal powerâ, which is the capacity to manipulate what people think is possible. Once the ânecessarilyâ true appears to be only âcontingentlyâ so, then the future suddenly becomes a more open space for action. This was what frightened Plato about the alternative realities persuasively portrayed by playwrights in ancient Athens. Nevertheless, Fuller believes that it should be embraced by denizens of todayâs post-truth condition. |
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