The special issue sets out to cast a range of perspectives on the entanglements between truth, the political, affective publics and their subjectivities; in short, it looks for reorienting matters of truth in uncertain political times. This leads us to a productive reversion of the supposed tension between truth and politics and between the idea of a truth that is always contested, and therefore too weak, and at the same time despotic, and therefore too strong, to meet the political aspiration of consensus. If there is a sense of finitude today, there is also the force of truth waiting to be enacted, re-oriented and set on new paths.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Christine Hentschel, Susanne Krasmann "Truth is where the funny lies". On the Desire for Truth in Serious Times
Frieder Vogelmann The Problem of Post-Truth. Rethinking the Relationship between Truth and Politics
Peter Niesen The Cautionary Use of Fakes
Norbert Paulo Die Rationalität postfaktischen Denkens
Rainer Mühlhoff Affekte der Wahrheit. Über autoritäre Sensitivitäten von der Aufklärung bis zu 4Chan, Trump und der Alt-Right
Mariana Valverde Forms of Veridiction in Politics and Culture: Avowal in Today's Jargon of Authenticity
Janosik Herder Information as Truth. Cybernetics and the Birth of the Informed Subject
Andreas Folkers Rezension zu Ute Tellmann, "Life and Money"
Felix Fink Rezension zu Rainer Mühlhoff, "Immersive Macht"
Janina Ruhnau Rezension zu Karsten Schubert, "Freiheit als Kritik"