Peter highlights a billboard advertisement as exemplary of this phenomenon: It’s not clear to what extent people truly believe it and to what extent it’s understood that everyone must act as if it was true. This propaganda is everywhere in the media including in the bad ports of western sitcoms. Peter paints a portrait of a Russia that is “some sort of postmodern dictatorship that uses the language and institutions of democratic capitalism for authoritarian ends.” He is in a position to understand, to a degree, the way that the media landscape is a battlefield of what he refers to as “political engineers” who use a “new type of Kremlin propaganda, less about arguing against the West with a counter-model as in the Cold War, more about slipping inside its language to play and taunt it from inside.”
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