Hartley, John
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"Hartley's groundbreaking take on interdisciplinary humanities at planetary scale focuses an analytical lens on the world of weaponised make-believe,
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in fact and fiction. Make/Believe opens with an account of children's collective activism in an era when their futures are jeopardized by our stories, then disentangles strategic stories in science, journalism, and popular culture, among zombies, aliens, class struggle, policy discourses, aircraft carriers, submarines, truth-warriors, and lifestyle journalism. The take-out message is that culture makes groups, groups make knowledge, and knowledge makes enemies"--
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