A Political Theory of Post-Truth

Ignas Kalpokas is Assistant Professor of International Relations and Development in the Department of Social Sciences at LCC International University, Lithuania, and Lecturer in the Department of Public Communication at Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania.

1. Introduction.- 2. Post-Truth: The Condition of Our Times.- 3. Enabling Post-truth: Mediatisation and Affect.- 4. Making the Theory Political.- 5. Conclusion: For unto Us Post-Truth Is Born.

"In A Political Theory of Post-Truth, Ignas Kalpokas offers a nuanced and lucid description of the conditions and content of a post-truth world, drawing particularly on the work of the seventeen-century philosopher Baruch Spinoza with support from the twentieth-century post-structuralist Gilles Deleuze. Going beyond cliches and superficial diagnosis, this is a perceptive, yet alarming, vision of an ever-more embedded post-truth future ... ." (Roderick Howlett, LSE Review of Books, blogs.lse.ac.uk, February, 2019)

“In A Political Theory of Post-Truth, Ignas Kalpokas offers a nuanced and lucid description of the conditions and content of a post-truth world, drawing particularly on the work of the seventeen-century philosopher Baruch Spinoza with support from the twentieth-century post-structuralist Gilles Deleuze. Going beyond cliches and superficial diagnosis, this is a perceptive, yet alarming, vision of an ever-more embedded post-truth future … .” (Roderick Howlett, LSE Review of Books, blogs.lse.ac.uk, February, 2019)