It comprises communication that displaces and nullifies concerns about veracity. Post-truth also includes forms of public discourse commonly called bullshit. ‘The truth is it stopped immediately, it was amazing.’ An example is when Donald Trump claims there was never a drought in California, or that during his inauguration the weather cleared, when actually light rain fell throughout his address. Liars attempt alchemy: when someone tells lies they wilfully say things they “know” not to be true, for effect. For a start, it is a type of communication that includes old-fashioned lying, where speakers say things about themselves and their world that are at odds with impressions and convictions that they harbour in their mind’s eye.
Its troubling potency in public life flows from its hybrid qualities, its combination of different elements in ways that defy expectations and confuse its recipients. It is better described as an omnibus term, a word for communication comprising a salmagundi or assemblage of different but interconnected phenomena. We can say that “post-truth” is not simply the opposite of truth, however that is defined it is more complicated. Post-truth communicationĪ catchword that has gone viral so quickly surely deserves careful attention and crisper definition, especially if we are not to be thrown off balance by a global phenomenon that sets out to do precisely that. Not the claim to truth, but the expression of the ‘felt truth’ leads to success in the ‘post-factual age’. Selected as word of the year by the German language society Gesellschaft für deutsche Sprache (GfdS), it refers to the growing tendency of “political and social discussions” to be dominated by “emotions instead of facts”.Įver greater sections of the population are ready to ignore facts, and even to accept obvious lies willingly. The popularity of the German postfaktisch (post-factual) usage captures much the same meaning. In China and in the Spanish-speaking world, respectively, commonplace talk of hòu zhēnxiāng and posverdad pushes in this direction. Most observers in the English-speaking world cite the 2016 Word of the Year Oxford English Dictionaries entry: post-truth is the public burial of “objective facts” by an avalanche of media “appeals to emotion and personal belief”. What exactly is meant by the term post-truth? Paradoxically, post-truth is among the most-talked-about yet least-well-defined meme words of our time. The drift toward a world of “post-truth” politics is among these troubling trends. It proposed that the unfinished revolution is dogged by politically threatening contradictions and decadent counter-trends. It showed why new information platforms, robust muckraking and cross-border publics are among the exciting social and political trends of our time.
My book Democracy and Media Decadence probed the contours of this revolution.
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For the first time in history, thanks to built-in cheap microprocessors, these algorithmic devices and information systems integrate texts, sounds and images in compact, easily storable, reproducible and portable digital form.Ĭommunicative abundance enables messages to be sent and received through multiple user points, in chosen time, real or delayed, within global networks that are affordable and accessible to billions of people.
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