Of 'On Bullshit In Cultural Policy Practice And Research: Notes From The British Case'

In "On Bullshit in Cultural Policy Practice and Research: Notes from the British Case" Professor Eleonora Belfiore explores bullshit in politics and why it is prevalent particularly in politics. Belfiore begins with a differentiation between bullshit and lying, "...lies a bullshitter who is intentionally misleading his or her interlocutors so as to pursue his or her own interests" (38). This is the main difference between lies and bullshit, she claims where lies are unintentionally deceiving, bullshit is intentional, leading to it being more detrimental to those on the side being misled. One example of this occurrence is the war on Iraq which led to military involvement based on false information about weapons of mass destruction. Belfiore's