Lying Beyond Scruples
In an age of open lies, how have blatant manipulators become socially tolerable? This book dissects this dangerous shift and presents a powerful model of resistance and self-empowerment against these harmful new tactics.
Lia Lola V. Kotnik is an opera researcher, media and communication studies specialist, anthropologist, sociologist, philosopher and Professor of Anthropology at the Department of Media Studies, Faculty of Humanities of the University of Primorska in Koper/Capodistria, Slovenia. Her main areas of research and teaching are media studies, communication studies, manipulation studies, audience studies, opera studies, gender studies, transgender studies, fashion studies, anthropology of spectacle, social anthropology, historical anthropology, epistemology of the humanities and social sciences. Her recently published books are Več kot moda [More Than Fashion] (2023), Trans(spol)nost [Trans(gender)ness] (2022), Small Places, Operatic Issues (2019), Medijske etnografije [Media Ethnographies] (2019), Homo academicus in mediji [Homo Academicus and the Media] (2016), Opera as Anthropology (2016).