Autorentext

Yves Citton is professor in Literature and Media at the Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint Denis, after having previously taught at the University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA (1992-2003) and at the Université Grenoble Alpes (2003-2017). He was Executive Director of the Graduate School (EUR) ArTeC from 2018 to 2021 and is co-editor of the journal Multitudes. He published a dozen books in French, translated in many languages, among which Mediarchy (Polity Press, 2019) and The Ecology of Attention (Polity Press, 2016). His articles are in open access on his website www.yvescitton.net.

Klappentext

Mythocracy examines the narrative mechanisms that script our lives through the stories we tell one another. Digging beneath common anxieties about fake news, Yves Citton looks at the attention economy, which organises our political perceptions around affective attractors. These are much more powerful than the truth value of any given narrative. The time has come for the left to reclaim the power of myth from reactionary populism.

Zusammenfassung
Harnessing the power of storytelling for political progress

Inhalt

Introduction: ‘Scripting’ and Soft Power

1. Reformulating Our Imaginary of Power
2. Modelling the Circulation of Power

3. Scripting as an Activity

   Illustrative Interlude: Scripting from Up There

4. Attractors and Infra-Politics

5. New Demands for Equality

   Literary Interlude: From Interrupted Myth to Epic in the Making

6. Renewing Left -Wing Imaginaries

   Afterword
   Acknowledgements
   Index