This is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality

Author(s): Peter Pomerantsev

Current Affairs

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.


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General Fields

  • : 9780571338634
  • : Faber
  • : Faber Non Fiction
  • : 0.322
  • : September 2019
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  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Peter Pomerantsev
  • : very good
  • : 303.375
  • : English
  • : Paperback