Post-Truth Imaginations (eBook, PDF)

New Starting Points for Critique of Politics and Technoscience
Redaktion: Rommetveit, Kjetil

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. November 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429628764
• Artikelnr.: 62739371

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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