[D66] This is Not Propaganda

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This is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality

Published by Faber & Faber

https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/on-our-shelves/book/9780571338634/this-is-not-propaganda-adventures-in-the-war-against-reality

1 August 2019

Paperback / softback

ISBN: 9780571338634
This is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality
Peter Pomerantsev
£14.99

>From the publisher:

‘The world’s most powerful people are lying like never before, and no
one understands the art of their lies like Peter Pomerantsev.’ Oliver
Bullough, author of Moneyland: The Inside Story of the Crooks and
Kleptocrats Who Rule the World ‘Through our current smog of smouldering
bullshit, This is Not Propaganda shines a necessary, humane and
dissident light.’ Nick Rankin, author of Churchill’s Wizards: the
British Genius for Deception 1914-1945 When information is a weapon,
everyone is at war. We live in a world of influence operations run amok,
a world of dark ads, psy-ops, hacks, bots, soft facts, ISIS, Putin,
trolls, Trump. We’ve lost not only our sense of peace and democracy –
but our sense of what those words even mean. As Peter Pomerantsev seeks
to make sense of the disinformation age, he meets Twitter
revolutionaries and pop-up populists, ‘behavioural change’ salesmen,
Jihadi fan-boys, Identitarians, truth cops, and much more. Forty years
after his dissident parents were pursued by the KGB, he finds the
Kremlin re-emerging as a great propaganda power. His research takes him
back to Russia – but the answers he finds there are surprising. Part
reportage, part intellectual adventure, This is Not Propaganda is a
Pynchon-like exploration of how we can reimagine our politics and
ourselves in a time where truth has been turned topsy-turvy.