Post-Truth Imaginations: New Starting Points for Critique of Politics and Technoscience

ISBN-13: 9780367146818 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 224 str.

Kjetil Rommetveit

Opis

This book engages with post-truth as a problem of societal order and for scholarly analysis. It claims that post-truth is more deeply entangled with main Western imaginations of knowledge societies than commonly recognised.

Spis treści

Introduction: post-truth — another fork in modernity’s path  Part 1: Foundations  1. Truth as what kind of functional myth for modern politics? A historical case-study  2. Post-truth or pre-emptive truth? STS and the genealogy of the present 3. The moment of post-truth for Science and Technology Studies  Part 2: Inquiries  4. Post-truth dystopia: Huxleyan distraction or Orwellian control?  5. Public reasoning in "post-truth" times: technoscientific imaginaries of "smart" futures  6. Tracing networked infrastructures for post-truth: public dissections of and by techno-political Leviathans  7. Governing the Median Estate: hyper-truth and post-truth in the regulation of digital innovations

O autorze

Kjetil Rommetveit is associate professor at the Centre for the Study of the Sciences and Humanities, University of Bergen.