Biopolitics after truth : knowledge, power and democratic life / Sergei Prozorov.

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