This is not Propaganda

Resumen del libro

'Through our current smog of smouldering bullshit, This is Not Propaganda shines a necessary, humane and dissident light.' Nick Rankin, author of Churchill's Wizards: the British Genius for Deception 1914-1945 'The world's most powerful people are lying like never before, and no one understands the art of their lies like Peter Pomerantsev.' Oliver Bullough, author of Moneyland: The Inside Story of the Crooks and Kleptocrats Who Rule the World 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.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;p PETER POMERANTSEV (Kiev, 1977) Es un galardonado colaborador del x{0026}lt;i London Review of Booksx{0026}lt;/i . Sus escritos han sido publicados en el x{0026}lt;i Financial Timesx{0026}lt;/i , x{0026}lt;i NewYorker.comx{0026}lt;/i , x{0026}lt;i Newsweekx{0026}lt;/i y x{0026}lt;i Atlantic Monthlyx{0026}lt;/i . Ejerció de productor televisivo en Rusia entre 2006 y 2010 y también ha trabajado como consultor para la Unión Europea y para varios x{0026}lt;i think tanksx{0026}lt;/i en proyectos relacionados con la antigua Unión Soviética. En RBA también ha publicado x{0026}lt;i La Nueva Rusia: nada es verdad y todo es posible en la era de Putin.x{0026}lt;/p