Postmodern propaganda techniques now operate internationally across several states

Evidence

Surkov’s techniques of postmodern propaganda are described most vividly in Peter Pomerantsev’s (2017) best-­selling memoir Nothing Is True Everything Is Possible: Adventures in Modern Russia. Pomerantsev has also written extensively about the inner workings of other recent disinformation campaigns, including those in the Philippines, Serbia, and Ukraine. — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 676

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘nothing is true’ epistemic regime connects to speculation’s manufactured uncertainty and how markets/dating/politics share a logic. — connects to: Platform algorithms delivered foreign propaganda to its most receptive audiences — Anna Merlan, Republic of Lies, 203; Postmodern cultural productions both express and mystify new global space. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 160; Propaganda reduces both language and its audience to instrumental tools — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 261

Broader Connections

• Propaganda reduces both language and its audience to instrumental tools #expands (0.75) — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 261
• Postmodern cultural productions both express and mystify new global space. #complicates (0.72) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 160