Abstract
In this chapter I will begin with some definitions of keywords such as ‘dupery’, postdigital, post-truth, and postmodern. I will then proceed to consider how political ‘duperation’ manifests itself, considering, for example, how dupery has borrowed the techniques of advertising; how dupers, gravitating towards a medium which suits their purposes – social media, have reduced and degraded language; and, consequently, the very process of democracy. I will consider also the paradoxes and duplicities of the various tropes deployed by dupers including the authentic, anti-elite avatar, the resenting and revengeful avatar, and the surveilling avatar. I will examine how the emotional and the visceral have become the rhetorical levers in duperation. The chapter will conclude with some recommendations about how we might begin to resist duperation.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Postmodern Political Rhetoric (Dupery by Design: The Epistemology of Deceit in a Postdigital Era and the critical role of Higher Education |
Editors | Alison MacKenzie, Ibrar Bhatt, Jennifer Rose |
Publisher | Springer |
Chapter | 4 |
Pages | 63-75 |
Number of pages | 13 |
Publication status | Published - 01 Sept 2021 |