Reality Bites: Rhetoric and the Circulation of Truth Claims in U.S. Political Culture

Fake news, alternative facts, post truth-terms all too familiar to anyone in U.S. political culture and concepts...
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Author: Dana L. Cloud
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Reality Bites: Rhetoric and the Circulation of Truth Claims in U.S. Political Culture by Cloud, Dana L.

Reality Bites: Rhetoric and the Circulation of Truth Claims in U.S. Political Culture

$95.94

Reality Bites: Rhetoric and the Circulation of Truth Claims in U.S. Political Culture

$95.94
Author: Dana L. Cloud
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Fake news, alternative facts, post truth-terms all too familiar to anyone in U.S. political culture and concepts at the core of Dana L. Cloud's new book, Reality Bites, which explores truth claims in contemporary political rhetoric in the face of widespread skepticism regarding the utility, ethics, and viability of an empirical standard for political truths. Cloud observes how appeals to truth often assume-mistakenly-that it is a matter of simple representation of facts. However, since neither fact-checking nor "truthiness" can respond meaningfully to this problem, she argues for a rhetorical realism-the idea that communicators can bring knowledge from particular perspectives and experiences into the domain of common sense.


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, the rhetoric of Thomas Paine and the American Revolution, and the Black Lives Matter movement-Cloud advocates for the usefulness of narrative, myth, embodiment, affect, and spectacle in creating accountability in contemporary U.S. political rhetoric. If dominant reality "bites"-in being oppressive and exploitative-it is time, Cloud argues, for those in the reality-based community to "bite back."

Author: Dana L. Cloud
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: 02/17/2018
Pages: 226
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780814254653


Review Citation(s):
Choice 03/01/2019

About the Author
Dana L. Cloud is Professor in the Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies at Syracuse University. She is a longtime activist for social justice and the author of We Are the Union: Democratic Unionism and Dissent at Boeing and Control and Consolation in American Politics and Culture: Rhetorics of Therapy.





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