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"Ecologies of truth in a post-truth era. The problem with Neo-Nazis is not that they don't trust the media but that they trust them too much. White supremacists are absolutely convinced by their supremacy. They distrust technologies and climate change as much as the global poor because, as white Europeans, they believe they are exempt from exploitation. This book argues that the only truths possible in the 21st century are mobile, inventive practices involving everything European models of communication exclude: technologies, nature, and leftover humanity. Tracing histories of their separation, Truth analyzes the struggle between the new dominance of information systems and the sensory worlds it excludes, not least the ancestral wisdom that the West has imprisoned in its technologies. The emergent cybernetics of the 1940s has become the dominant ideology of the 21st century. Truth opposes its division of the world between subjects and objects, signals and noise, emphasizing that there can be no return to some primal Eden of unfettered exchange. Instead, these divisions, which have fundamentally reorganized the commodity form that they inherited, are the historical conditions we must confront. Drawing on a wide range of aesthetic practices, from literature, film, art, music, workplace media, scientific instruments, and animal displays, Truth seeks out ways to create a new commons and a new politics grounded in aesthetic properties of creativity, senses and perception that can no longer be restricted to humans alone." -- MIT Press website.

Truthfulness and falsehood --- Aesthetics --- Human ecology. --- Écologie humaine. --- human ecology. --- Human ecology --- Political aspects. --- Political aspects

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Publishing is experiencing one of the most transformative phases in its history. In Tactical Publishing, a sequel to Post-Digital Print, Alessandro Ludovico explores the forces driving this historical phase, highlighting the tremendous opportunities it presents. Our task, he believes, is to develop an alternative publishing system that transcends the dichotomy between paper and digital media. He focuses first on the two activities on which publishing is premised—reading and writing (with an emphasis on writing machines and post-truth in the latter) and then deconstructs the concept, proposing alternative strategies inspired by recent practices and unconventional uses of technology.

Publishers and publishing --- Book industries and trade --- Books and reading --- Authorship --- Electronic publishing. --- Digital media. --- Intermediality. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies --- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Library & Information Science / General --- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Publishers & Publishing Industry --- Technological innovations. --- Épistémologie --- Édition technique --- Intermédialité --- Société numérique --- Fonds d'archives