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Biopolitics after truth : knowledge, power and democratic life / Sergei Prozorov.
LIBRA JA71 .P777 2022
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Prozorov, Sergei, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Biopolitics.
- Democracy.
- Political science--Philosophy.
- Political science.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 194 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Agrippina: Post-truth avant la lettre
- From contestation to indifference: Defining post-truth
- Outline of the argument
- 1. The regime of equivalence
- Diagnosis: There are only bodies and languages
- Definition: Post-proof, post-shame, post-consensus
- Regime: Equivalence vs equality
- Contrast: Post-truth politics or truth politics?
- Paradigm: The spread
- 2. Subject to truth
- Postmodernism and the concern for truth
- Foucault: Why is there truth?
- Truth as a procedure of subjectivation: Foucault and Badiou
- Agamben: From oaths to tweets
- 3. The Russification of the West
- Vladimir Zhirinovsky: The birth of postcommunist trolling
- Para-Soviet practices in the post-Soviet era
- Where meaning runs deep
- The epistemology of conspiracism
- Why so serious?
- Globalising post-truth: How to wash it all away in the West
- Pussy Riot: How to speak in a non-equivalent manner
- 4. The truth won't tell itself
- Parrhesia: Disobedient discourse
- The (bio)power of the powerless
- Truth as force
- Greta Thunberg: How to follow the science
- Equality, equivalence and democratic life.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-192) and index.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 1474485782
- 9781474485784
- OCLC:
- 1245659297
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