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Post-truth politics (which some commentators prefer to call post-factual politics or post-reality politics), amidst varying academic and dictionary definitions of the term, refer to a recent historical period where political culture is marked by public anxiety about what claims can be publicly accepted facts.
Some scholars argue that post-truth has similarities with past moral, epistemic, and political debates about relativism, postmodernity, and dishonesty in politics. Others insist that post-truth is specifically concerned with 21st century communication technologies and cultural practices.
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Oct 22, 2018 · Structurally, post-truth relates to an erosion of the common world due to the increasing irrelevance of factual truth in public discourse. This process can be traced to changes in the media-economy-politics complex.
Mar 23, 2018 · Post-truth is said to be the beginning of the end of politics as we’ve known it in existing democracies. There is talk of an emergent “post-truth era”. More than a few critics warn that the ...
Nov 5, 2023 · In the realm of post-truth politics, the defence of truth has become a task for critical theory. Whether the criticism that knowledge is constructed based on power in the past remains relevant in the post-truth period as a vital contemporary discussion.
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Active editors of Wikipedia firmly believe that this open online encyclopedia and other wikis operating under the same value system are lifeboats for truth seekers in a post-truth society. The mechanisms established over many years for sharing open knowledge through this online platform are even more useful now than they may have been in ...
Dec 23, 2016 · Post-truth politics exploits this contradiction by disputing the independence and objectivity of scientists and scholars. We are dismissed as ‘elites’ – as one more cog in the establishment machine that allegedly suppresses free speech and imposes political correctness. Post-truth politics contests our right to act as public intellectuals.
