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 discourse is more deeply entangled with main Western imaginations of knowledge societies than commonly recognised. Scholarly responses to post-truth have not fully addressed t...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Taylor & Francis
[2022]
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| Colección: | History and philosophy of technoscience ;
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009745183706719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
