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

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

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

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Kjetil (University of Bergen Rommetveit
• Assisted by: Kjetil Rommetveit (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2023
• EAN: 9781032158075
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3215807-5
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: History and Philosophy of Technoscience
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; History, HISTORY / General, PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Social Aspects, Impact of science & technology on society, Impact of science and technology on society, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Technology Studies