Toxic White masculinity, post-truth politics and the Covid-19 infodemic
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12599345 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jayson Harsin (0000-0002-8696-8834, The American University of Paris, France, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 1060-1068 |
| Publication date | 2020-08-08 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European Journal of Cultural Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1367-5494 • E-ISSN: 1460-3551 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1367549420944934 |
| OpenAlex | W3047830841 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 35 |
| References cited | 10 |
This article demonstrates and critiques the coronavirus’ cultural agency, which thanks to this human assistance, worked in synergy with its biological form. Looking at the virus as an ‘infodemic’ and a set of transnational political events, it argues that a conjuncturally specific form of toxic, especially white, masculinity is key to understanding the virus’s entwinement with contemporary post-truth or ‘emo-truth’ politics. A conjunctural focus reveals why a certain form of aggressive (masculine and white), ruggedly individualist truth-telling, its false statements, its historical causes, and mortal effects could become so spectacularly impactful at a particular point in time, in particular places
Agency (philosophy · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Individualism · Masculinity · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · White (mutation · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy · Law · Philosophy · Rhetoric and Communication Studies
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| Unique citing works | 35 |
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| Citations per year | 5,83 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2025 (6) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 35 |