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Really Fake

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Really Fake
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Alexandra Juhasz
By (author) Ganaele Langlois
By (author) Nishant Shah
SeriesIn Search of Media
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:118
Dimensions(mm): Height 178,Width 127
ISBN/Barcode 9781517911010
ClassificationsDewey:177.3
Audience
General
Professional & Vocational

Publishing Details

Publisher University of Minnesota Press
Imprint University of Minnesota Press
Publication Date 13 July 2021
Publication Country United States

Description

More important than flagging things "really fake" is to understand why they are dismissed as fake The new truth is the one that circulates: digital truth emerges from lists, databases, archives, and conditions of storage. Multiple truths may be activated through search, link, and retrieve queries. Alexandra Juhasz, Ganaele Langlois, and Nishant Shah respond by taking up story, poetry, and other human logics of care, intelligence, and dignity to explore sociotechnological and politico-aesthetic emergences in a world where information overload has become a new ontology of not-knowing. Their feminist digital methods allow considerations of internet things through alternative networked internet time: slowing down to see, honor, and engage with our past; invoking indeterminacy as a human capacity that lets multiple truths commingle on a page or in a body; and saving the truths of ourselves and our others differently from the corporate internet's perpetual viral movement. Writing across their own shared truisms, actors, and touchstones, the authors propose creative tactics, theoretical overtures, and experimental escape routes built to a human scale as ways to regain our capacities to know and tell truths about ourselves.

Author Biography

Alexandra Juhasz is distinguished professor of film at Brooklyn College, the City University of New York. Ganaele Langlois is associate professor in the Department of Communication Studies at York University, Canada. Nishant Shah is vice president of research and acting director of research development of the Graduate School at the ArtEZ University of the Arts, The Netherlands.