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  • 8 - Political Confection

  • from Part III - The Acting President
  • Gary Watt, University of Warwick
  • Book:
    The Making Sense of Politics, Media, and Law
    Published online:
    06 April 2023
    Print publication:
    13 April 2023, pp 163-182
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    In a Confectionary Performance as that term is used in this chapter, the maker and the spectator will both appreciate that the performance is a deliberate one of making something by combining other things. ‘Synthesis’ and ‘articulation’ would serve as satisfactory synonyms for ‘confection’, but the advantage of ‘confection’ as a description of making processes that persuade spectators is the word’s association with pleasing sweetness. The very word persuasion originates in the idea that a person is moved ‘through sweetness’ (per-suade). Paying attention to the use of culinary and other sensory affective Confectionary Performances, this chapter highlights the significance in our post-truth age of political performances that bypass our logical thought processes in order to influence us through our feelings.