Regimes of Posttruth, Postpolitics, and Attention Economies
01 Jun 2015-Communication, Culture & Critique (Wiley Subscription Services, Inc.)-Vol. 8, Iss: 2, pp 327-333
TL;DR: In this article, a shift from regimes of truth (ROT) to regimes of posttruth (ROPT) characterized by proliferating truth markets is discussed, where power exploits new "freedoms" to participate/produce/express (as well as consume/diffuse/evaluate).
Abstract: Across multiple societies, we see a shift from regimes of truth (ROT) to “regimes of posttruth” (ROPT) characterized by proliferating “truth markets.” ROT corresponded to disciplinary society, tighter functioning between media/political/education apparatuses, scientific discourses, and dominant truth-arbiters. ROPT corresponds to societies of control, where power exploits new “freedoms” to participate/produce/express (as well as consume/diffuse/evaluate). These developments further correspond to postpolitics/postdemocracy, where issues, discourses, and agency for sociopolitical change remain constrained, despite the enabling of a new range of cultural and pseudopolitical participation around, among other things, truth. ROPT emerge out of postpolitical/postdemocratic strategies common to control societies where especially resource rich political actors attempt to use data-analytic knowledge to manage the field of appearance and participation, via attention and affect.
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