Description: Exploring the psychosocial realities of the assault on truth.
Brief description: Zahid R. Chaudhary is Associate Professor of English at Princeton University. He is the author of Afterimage of Empire: Photography in Nineteenth-Century India.
Review Quotes: Paranoid Publics is a smart, original, and provocative take on some of the most pressing political questions of our time. Chaudhary examines the collective libidinal life of outrage, paranoia, scandal, and other negative emotions that have accompanied the ongoing assault on truth. He shows how psychoanalysis can help explain the libidinal eruptions of energy that have characterized the contemporary political horizon as truth and reason have waned.---Camille Robcis, Columbia University