Biopolitics After Truth Knowledge, Power and Democratic Life
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Sprache:Englisch
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Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
22.05.2023
Verlag
Edinburgh University PressSeitenzahl
192
Maße (L/B/H)
23.4/15.6/1.1 cm
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290 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-4744-8579-1
Assessing the post-truth condition from a biopolitical perspective The rise of post-truth politics marks the most serious crisis of Western liberal democracy since the end of the Cold War. The decline of trust in expert knowledge and mainstream media, the rise of social media devoid of a gatekeeping function and the growth of covert external interference in electoral processes have led to fragmentation, polarization and destabilization of Western democratic systems. What makes post-truth politics so difficult to resist is its apparently democratic character that claims to challenge bureaucratic depoliticisation, the rule of experts and the disappearance of alternatives to the hegemonic policy. Biopolitics after Truth refutes this interpretation, arguing that the post-truth ideology leads to the degradation of the public sphere that is essential to democratic governance. Rather than enable resistance to expertise-based biopolitical governmentalities, truth denialism dissolves the only framework where their contestation and transformation could take place. In contrast, Biopolitics after Truth argues for a positive role of truth-telling in the democratization of biopolitical governance. Sergei Prozorov is Professor of Political Science at the Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy at the University of Jyväskylä. He is the author of Democratic Biopolitics (2019) and The Biopolitics of Stalinism (2016), also published by Edinburgh University Press.
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