As a Matter of Fact: Journalism and Scholarship in the Post-truth Era

(Post-)Truth, populism and the simulation of parrhesia: A feminist critique of truth-telling after Hannah Arendt and Michel Foucault

“…Because of their traits as plural, contingent, agonistic (Hyvönen 2018, 2f.) and unstable, as ‘simply unfinished’ (Gorman 2021), factual truths render their tellers precarious.…”

“…However, since then, police violence has not declined, and gendered and racialized murders are still on the rise: andro-centric politics and post-truth discourse roam political and media landscapes. As crises multiply, it has become clear that ‘post-truth’ cannot be understood as an era we enter and then exit at some point in history; it does not ‘emerg[e] out of thin air’ but forms as a ‘crystallization of a longer trajectory of devaluing truth in political discussion’ (Hyvönen 2018, 1). Gorman’s poem points precisely to post-truth history and its adjacent darkness.…”

Gender, Climate Breakdown and Resistance: The Future of Human Rights in the Shadow of Authoritarianism

“…Consequently, our ability to react to political events and to engage in a democratic process of opinion-formation is compromised.' 48 Creeping authoritarian features place incumbent governments ' … at a significant advantage vis-à-vis their opponents, making changes of government through (peaceful) democratic processes increasingly hard, if not impossible'. 49 By focusing on competitive authoritarianism, we can look at the ways in which political regimes act to undermine effective opposition in subtle ways, for example by appropriating notions of the welfare state, gender equality, and 'ecologism' to appeal to the concerns of broader audiences, as we demonstrate in sections 3 and 4 below.…”

Review of Alison MacKenzie, Jennifer Rose, and Ibrar Bhatt (Eds.). (2021). The Epistemology of Deceit in a Postdigital Era: Dupery by Design

“…The media (old and new, mass and social) seem to lack not only the requisite institutional capacity and authority, but also the ambition to shoulder the responsibility involved in being truly public in this respect. A further and perhaps even more menacing prospect is that, for similar reasons, there may be no other candidates in a position to take on the mantle (Hyvönen 2018;Rider 2020).…”