Biopolitics After Truth : : Knowledge, Power and Democratic Life / / Sergei Prozorov.
Critically re-examines canonical theories of biopolitics in the post-truth contextArgues for a positive role of truth-telling in the democratisation of biopolitical governanceUndertakes a genealogical investigation of the origins of the contemporary post-truth regime in early post-communist politics...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English |
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Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2021 |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (192 p.) |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: The word of the year -- 1. The regime of equivalence -- 2. Subject to truth -- 3. The Russification of the West -- 4. The truth won’t tell itself -- Coda: On error -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Summary: | Critically re-examines canonical theories of biopolitics in the post-truth contextArgues for a positive role of truth-telling in the democratisation of biopolitical governanceUndertakes a genealogical investigation of the origins of the contemporary post-truth regime in early post-communist politicsPuts forward an innovative theory of the speech act of truth-telling in democratic biopoliticsDraws on familiar examples from contemporary politics such as Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump, Greta Thunberg and BrexitWhat 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. Sergei Prozorov 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 democratisation of biopolitical governance. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9781474485807 9783110754001 9783110753776 9783110754179 9783110753943 9783110780406 |
DOI: | 10.1515/9781474485807 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Sergei Prozorov. |