Post-truth imaginations : new starting points for critique of politics and technoscience /
Post-truth imaginations : new starting points for critique of politics and technoscience /
edited by Kjetil Rommetveit.
- 1 online resource
- History and philosophy of technoscience .
- History and philosophy of technoscience. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Post-Truth -- Another Fork in Modernity's Path / 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 / 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 / Kjetil Rommetveit -- Brian Wynne -- Luigi Pellizzoni -- Johan Söderberg -- Darrin Durant -- Ingrid Foss Ballo and Nora S. Vaage -- Niels van Dijk -- Kjetil Rommetveit and Niels van Dijk Part 1: Foundations -- Part 2: Inquiries --
"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 these entanglements, treating them either as something to be morally condemned or as accusations against which scholars have to defend themselves (for having somehow contributed to it). Aiming for wider problematisations, the authors of this book use post-truth to open scholarly and societal assumptions to critical scrutiny. Contributions are both conceptual and empirical, dealing with topics such as: the role of truth in public; deep penetrations of ICTs into main societal institutions; the politics of time in neoliberalism; shifting boundaries between fact - value, politics - science, nature - culture; and the importance of critique for public truth-telling. Case studies range from the politics of nuclear power and election meddling in the UK, over smart technologies and techno-regulation in Europe, to renewables in Australia. The book ends where the Corona story begins: as intensifications of Modernity's complex dynamics, requiring new starting points for critique"--
9780429627125 0429627122 9780429053061 0429053061 0429628765 9780429625480 0429625480 9780429628764
10.4324/9780429053061 doi
9780429053061 Taylor & Francis
2021057550
GBC1G2416 bnb
020341387 Uk
Truth.
Social epistemology.
Knowledge, Sociology of.
Information society.
Technology--Social aspects--Philosophy.
Science--Social aspects--Philosophy.
Civilization, Modern--21st century.
HISTORY--General.
SCIENCE--Philosophy & Social Aspects.
TECHNOLOGY--Social Aspects.
Knowledge, Sociology of.
Truthfulness and falsehood.
Truthfulness and falsehood--Political aspects.
Electronic books.
BD175
121
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Post-Truth -- Another Fork in Modernity's Path / 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 / 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 / Kjetil Rommetveit -- Brian Wynne -- Luigi Pellizzoni -- Johan Söderberg -- Darrin Durant -- Ingrid Foss Ballo and Nora S. Vaage -- Niels van Dijk -- Kjetil Rommetveit and Niels van Dijk Part 1: Foundations -- Part 2: Inquiries --
"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 these entanglements, treating them either as something to be morally condemned or as accusations against which scholars have to defend themselves (for having somehow contributed to it). Aiming for wider problematisations, the authors of this book use post-truth to open scholarly and societal assumptions to critical scrutiny. Contributions are both conceptual and empirical, dealing with topics such as: the role of truth in public; deep penetrations of ICTs into main societal institutions; the politics of time in neoliberalism; shifting boundaries between fact - value, politics - science, nature - culture; and the importance of critique for public truth-telling. Case studies range from the politics of nuclear power and election meddling in the UK, over smart technologies and techno-regulation in Europe, to renewables in Australia. The book ends where the Corona story begins: as intensifications of Modernity's complex dynamics, requiring new starting points for critique"--
9780429627125 0429627122 9780429053061 0429053061 0429628765 9780429625480 0429625480 9780429628764
10.4324/9780429053061 doi
9780429053061 Taylor & Francis
2021057550
GBC1G2416 bnb
020341387 Uk
Truth.
Social epistemology.
Knowledge, Sociology of.
Information society.
Technology--Social aspects--Philosophy.
Science--Social aspects--Philosophy.
Civilization, Modern--21st century.
HISTORY--General.
SCIENCE--Philosophy & Social Aspects.
TECHNOLOGY--Social Aspects.
Knowledge, Sociology of.
Truthfulness and falsehood.
Truthfulness and falsehood--Political aspects.
Electronic books.
BD175
121