Mythocracy: How Stories Shape Our Worlds


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Harnessing the power of storytelling for political progress

Mythocracy examines the narrative mechanisms that script our lives through the stories we tell one another. Digging beneath common anxieties about fake news, Yves Citton looks at the attention economy, which organises our political perceptions around affective attractors. These are much more powerful than the truth value of any given narrative. The time has come for the left to reclaim the power of myth from reactionary populism.

Author: Yves Citton
Publisher: Verso
Published: 04/01/2025
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.48lbs
Size: 8.23h x 5.59w x 0.66d
ISBN13: 9781839766985
ISBN10: 1839766980
BISAC Categories:
- Philosophy | Political
- Literary Criticism | Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology
- Political Science | History & Theory | General

About the Author
Yves Citton is the author of Mediarchy and Ecology of Attention. He is Professor in Literature and Media at the University Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint Denis, co-editor of the journal Multitudes, and director of the ArTeC Graduate School in Paris.