Vol. 9 No. 1 (2019): Fake

This issue of Excursions aims to shed light on that previously ignored, uncomfortably dusty, intentionally darkened corner: the fakery and fakeness of history, culture, society and academia.

Published: 2019-12-11

Articles

Preface

Karolina Szpyrko , Kate Meakin, Katharina Hendrickx

1-10
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‘What happened to the truth is not recorded’: Anticipating the Shift from Postmodern Consumer Culture to Post-Truth in Julian Barnes’s Flaubert’s Parrot

Ashely Thomas

11-27
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Deconstructing an Evil Fakeness: Digital Media and Truth in Dan Gilroy’s Nightcrawler

Nicholas Orlando

28- 44
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To be real for you: acousmatic cyborgs, asexuality, and becoming human

Ashley Barr

45-60
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Gender Precarity: Gender Identity and the Economy of Authenticity

Benjamin Carpenter

61-75
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A look into the picture-perfect fake life of Amalia Ulman’s Excellences and Perfections

Manuela Salazar

76-88
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Luxury for the Many: Politics and Virtues of the Knockoff

Silvia Bombardini

89-100
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Female street vendors’ (dis)engagement with politics in Rwanda – Orientalising women’s political participation

Xia Nan JIN

101-117
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Invisible Roots of Knowledge Production and their Role in Resistance to the Marketisation of Education

Heather McKnight

118-140
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When private property masquerades as public space: the shifting face of publicness in London’s city squares

Jessie Martin

141-159
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