Acknowledgements	6
	Contents	8
	Chapter 1 Introduction	10
	Abstract	10
	1.1 Structure of the Book	14
	References	17
	Chapter 2 Post-truth: The Condition of Our Times	18
	Abstract	18
	2.1 Post-truth as Co-created Fiction	19
	2.2 It Is True Because We Want It to Be True	31
	2.3 From Information to Experience	42
	References	51
	Chapter 3 Enabling Post-truth: Mediatisation and Affect	59
	Abstract	59
	3.1 Answering the Question: What Is Mediatisation	61
	3.2 Mediatised Affective Capacity: A Spinozist Theory	75
	References	88
	Chapter 4 Making the Theory Political	94
	Abstract	94
	4.1 Living to Tell the Tale	96
	4.2 The Pleasure of Hegemony	110
	References	123
	Chapter 5 Conclusion: For Unto Us Post-truth Is Born	129
	Abstract	129
	References	136
	Index	137