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This Is Not Propaganda

By: Peter Pomerantsev
Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
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Summary

When information is a weapon, everyone is at war.  

We live in a world of influence operations run amok, a world of dark ads, psy-ops, hacks, bots, soft facts, ISIS, Putin, trolls, Trump. We've lost not only our sense of peace and democracy - but our sense of what those words even mean. 

As Peter Pomerantsev seeks to make sense of the disinformation age, he meets Twitter revolutionaries and pop-up populists, 'behavioural change' salesmen, Jihadi fan-boys, Identitarians, truth cops and much more.

Forty years after his dissident parents were pursued by the KGB, he finds the Kremlin re-emerging as a great propaganda power. His research takes him back to Russia - but the answers he finds there are surprising. Part reportage, part intellectual adventure, This is Not Propaganda is a Pynchon-like exploration of how we can reimagine our politics and ourselves in a time where truth has been turned topsy-turvy.

©2017 Peter Pomerantsev (P)2019 Audible Ltd
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Rambling and incoherent critique

Lots of portentuous dooming about the dreadful age of troll farms, bot armies, ~populism~ that has dawned upon us, very little that is substantive or new or detailed. I wouldn't bother

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Leftist propaganda

I was looking for knowledge how to identify, defend yourself or produce propaganda, not to hear about anecdotes about right wing populists. Anecdotes should be minimal, not the merit, and yeah there are also leftist populists, but even that was missing.

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Enlightening about the intersection between power and media

This book is well written and taps into political life after post modernism deconstructed truth, meaning and community

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Great to be born in the same city

Peter Pomerantsev mentions being from Ukraine, but fails to populate it with Ukrainian intellectuals. He mentions Russian and Jewish prominent thinkers as a proof of multiculturalism on that territory, but ignores people who try to build ukrainian national identity there. He misses the chance to use our case of trying to understand who we are in the face of mortal danger as a possible antidote to Chinese approach.

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A bit confusing.

I found it difficult to understand where the propaganda began or ended.

It could be a bit clearer if the writer explained at the beginning of each story what point is being made.

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tedious

gave up with this. good insomnia cure. couldn't get into it and monotone delivery boring.

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Insightful and thought-provoking

Well written, well narrated and scary stuff. A bleak outlook but essential reading for this day and age

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