“The Sleep of Reason Produces … Rumours” *

Posted By Izabela Paszko on May 14, 2021 in Allgemein, cultural capital, English, Europe, featured, Going Public, going public, history, hope, identity, media, nationalism, Poland, rumour, symbolic, The Analysis, war, weapons of the weak

The phenomena of vivid grapevine communication, ferociously bred rumours and fake news seems to be a domain of modern times. However, these communicative inconsistencies have their historical and social continuity, recurring in times of distress and information noise. Let’s take the case of the wartime period: no internet, censored mass media, illegal information channels versus official propaganda. Who or what can be trusted?