Responsibility in a Time of Disinformation

Session Submission Type: In-Person Created Panel

Session Description

This panel investigates the responsibility that leaders and ordinary citizens have in a political context marked by significant projects of disinformation. The papers reimagine the responsibility that democratic citizens have for sifting truth from lies and for acting on disinformation when exposed to it.

Sub Unit

• Division 2: Foundations of Political Theory

Individual Presentations

• Thinking Responsibility Politically - Rachel Nusbaum, Brown University

• The Politics of Delusion: Reading Adorno on Right-Wing Extremism Today (Pre-Recorded) - Lars Rensmann, University of Groningen

• 'Gramscianism of the Right': On the Use and Abuse of Metapolitics (Pre-Recorded) - Michael Feola, Lafayette College

Chair

• Doug Thompson University of South Carolina