TY - BOOK ID - 139079328 TI - What is different? AU - Tillmans, Wolfgang AU - Oetker, Brigitte PY - 2018 SN - 9783956793738 3956793730 PB - Berlin Sternberg Press DB - UniCat KW - Truthfulness and falsehood in art KW - Truthfulness and falsehood KW - Fake news KW - Conservatism KW - Cognition KW - Psychological aspects KW - Social aspects KW - Tillmans, Wolfgang, UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:139079328 AB - Circling around contemporary issues of newly resurfaced right-wing populism, the phenomenon of fake news, and psychological findings such as the backfire effect, Tillmans, rather than analyzing the status quo, focuses on what has changed in the past ten, twenty, thirty, forty years. Why are societal consensus and institutions now under attack? Tillmans interviewed scientists, politicians, journalists, and social workers, highlighting the issues at stake from various angles. The publication also contains analytic texts and studies that shed further light on what happens in our brain, ethics, and online behavior when we are confronted with statements that oppose our political beliefs. Tillmans associated these texts with his own images as well as visual material found in print and online. While designing this year's Jahresring, he has created photocopy works using the four-color scan process on a machine from the 1990s--an early digital collage technique that resonates with the complexity of the situation we find ourselves in today. ER -