Storytelling
Bewitching the Modern Mind
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2010
Verso Books (Verlag)
978-1-84467-391-9 (ISBN)
Verso Books (Verlag)
978-1-84467-391-9 (ISBN)
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Since the 1990s, first in the US and then in Europe, the art of telling stories has been colonized by the domain of public relations and triumphant capitalism, and relabelled with the anodyne name of storytelling. The author deals with this incredible hold-up of human imagination.
Politics, as currently practiced, is no longer the art of the possible, but the art of the fictive. Its aim is not to change the world as it exists, but to affect the way it is perceived.
This is the subject of Christian Salmon's Storytelling, which looks at how the creative imagination has been hijacked in the twenty-first century. Salmon anatomizes the timeless human desire for narrative form and how it is abused in the marketing mechanisms behind politicians and products: luxury brands trade on their embellished histories, managers tell stories to motivate employees, soldiers in Iraq train on computer games conceived in Hollywood, and spin doctors construct political lives as if they were a folk epic.
Salmon unveils the workings of a "storytelling machine" more effective and insidious as a means of oppression than anything dreamed up by Orwell. The "reality-based community"-to use a phrase coined by an aide to George W. Bush-is now regularly outmaneuvered by public relations gurus and political advisers, as they construct story arcs for a population that has come to expect them.
Politics, as currently practiced, is no longer the art of the possible, but the art of the fictive. Its aim is not to change the world as it exists, but to affect the way it is perceived.
This is the subject of Christian Salmon's Storytelling, which looks at how the creative imagination has been hijacked in the twenty-first century. Salmon anatomizes the timeless human desire for narrative form and how it is abused in the marketing mechanisms behind politicians and products: luxury brands trade on their embellished histories, managers tell stories to motivate employees, soldiers in Iraq train on computer games conceived in Hollywood, and spin doctors construct political lives as if they were a folk epic.
Salmon unveils the workings of a "storytelling machine" more effective and insidious as a means of oppression than anything dreamed up by Orwell. The "reality-based community"-to use a phrase coined by an aide to George W. Bush-is now regularly outmaneuvered by public relations gurus and political advisers, as they construct story arcs for a population that has come to expect them.
Christian Salmon is a writer and researcher in the Centre for Research in the Arts and Language at the CNRS in Paris. Founder of the International Parliament of Writers, he is the author of Tombeau de la fiction, Devenir minoritaire, and Verbicide. He writes regularly for Le Monde.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 2.3.2010 |
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Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 147 x 218 mm |
Gewicht | 386 g |
Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie |
ISBN-10 | 1-84467-391-X / 184467391X |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-84467-391-9 / 9781844673919 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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