Reality bites : rhetoric and the circulation of truth claims in U.S. political culture / Dana L. Cloud.
"An analysis of truth claims in contemporary U.S. political rhetoric through a series of case studies--including the PolitiFact fact-checking project, the Planned Parenthood "selling baby parts" scandal, the Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden cases, Neil DeGrasse Tyson's Cosmos,...
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Table of Contents:
- Rhetorical realism, or, theory in the real world ; Realism's bad rap: structuralism, poststructuralism, and postmodernism ; Theory and reality ; Rhetoric as a resource for a critical realism ; The rhetorical study of science: understanding mediation ; Mediation in public spheres ; Marxism as a resource for rhetorical realism ; Conclusion: Mediation, standpoint, fidelity
- Toward a spectacular struggle, or, on the power of the big five ; Affect and emotion ; Embodiment ; Narrative and myth ; Spectacle and celebrity ; What about humor? ; Two problems by way of conclusion
- Pants on fire! on the rhetoric of fact-checking in U.S. political culture ; The explosion of fact-checking ; The complexity of falsehood ; A quantitative mode of propaganda: an example ; Alternative critical approaches ; Frame-checking the abortion video controversy ; Fact-checkers' responses ; Alternative framing strategies ; Conclusion: Frame-checking as perspective and method
- Framing whistleblowers
- secret agents and queer failure ; News narratives and media framing ; The importance of mediation and media(tion) frames
- Framing Edward Snowden ; Framing Chelsea Manning ; Conclusion: Manning's queer failure
- Cosmos and the big five bang ; Ordering the cosmos ; Cosmos and the big five ; Nuclear contradictions ; An excursus on rhetorical and scientific education ; Cosmic pedagogy
- From Thomas Paine to #BlackLivesMatter: the tasks of making revolutionary common sense ; The American war for independence and need for a new common sense ; Common sense: new form, new vision ; Paine and the big five ; Paine's implicit theory of ideology and mediation ; The Paine of our time: public ; intellectuals, #BlackLivesMatter, and social revolution
- Conclusion: The revolutionary intervention of common sense
- Conclusion: The fact of our crisis.