Biopolitics After Truth: Knowledge, Power and Democratic Life Prozorov Sergei
Biopolitics After Truth: Knowledge, Power and Democratic Life Prozorov Sergei What makes post-truth politics so difficult to resist is its apparently democratic character that claims to challenge…
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Biopolitics After Truth: Knowledge, Power and Democratic Life Prozorov Sergei
What makes post-truth politics so difficult to resist is its apparently democratic character that claims to challenge bureaucratic depoliticisation, the rule of experts and the disappearance of alternatives to the hegemonic policy. Rather than enable resistance to expertise-based biopolitical governmentalities, truth denialism dissolves the only framework where their contestation and transformation could take place. Sergei Prozorov refutes this interpretation, arguing that the post-truth ideology leads to the degradation of the public sphere that is essential to democratic governance.
In contrast, Biopolitics after Truth argues for a positive role of truth-telling in the democratisation of biopolitical