Biopolitics After Truth: Knowledge, Power and Democratic Life

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. Sergei Prozorov. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 183-192) And Index.