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David Macey (trans) and
Christian Salmon
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Verso Books
Publication date
March 2, 2010
Pages
173
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9781844673919
ISBN-10
184467391X
Dimensions
1 by 5.75 by 8.75 in.
Weight
0.80 lbs.
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Published in
Great Britain
Original list price
$24.95
§As reported by publisher
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Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: 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”âto use a phrase coined by an aide to George W. Bushâis now regularly outmaneuvered by public relations gurus and political advisers, as they construct story arcs for a population that has come to expect them.
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”âto use a phrase coined by an aide to George W. Bushâis now regularly outmaneuvered by public relations gurus and political advisers, as they construct story arcs for a population that has come to expect them.
Editions
Hardcover
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With David Macey (other contributor) |
from Verso Books (March 2, 2010)
9781844673919 | details & prices | 173 pages | 5.75 × 8.75 × 1.00 in. | 0.80 lbs | List price $24.95
About: Politics, as currently practiced, is no longer the art of the possible, but the art of the fictive.
About: Politics, as currently practiced, is no longer the art of the possible, but the art of the fictive.
Paperback
from Verso Books (September 13, 2016)
9781784786588 | details & prices | 192 pages | List price $16.95
About: Politics, as currently practiced, is no longer the art of the possible, but the art of the fictive.
About: Politics, as currently practiced, is no longer the art of the possible, but the art of the fictive.
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