Florian Rötzer in conversation with Nicola Gess
The Digital Salon
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Guest in the digital salon of the ZKM is Prof. Dr. Nicola Gess, who teaches literary studies at the University of Basel and has just published a book on »Half-truths. On the Manipulation of Reality«, published by Matthes & Seitz. In it, she explains that fake news, conspiracy theories and populist propaganda often resort to half-truths. They bridge the gap from fact-based discourse to the space of speculation and fiction, and are ultimately not concerned with truth or lies, but with coherence, credibility, and attention. Their thesis is that fact-checks bounce off representatives of half-truths because of this; fiction theory and narratology, instruments of literary studies, are responsible for debunking them.
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