Conspiracy Theory and International Relations
The opaque nature of international politics exerts limits on the available evidence, yet this cannot mean abandoning the task of judging between better and worse claims.
Towards a Space-Time Heuristic: Notes on Meaningful and Factual Truth
Facts are meaningless unless they are grounded in space and time, and can subsequently acquire more than one meaning to the effect of revealing a complex social reality.
European Crises and Right-Wing Populism: The Case of Lega Nord
In the post-truth age, right-wing populist parties such as Lega Nord offered an array of unrestrained ‘truths’ and managed to purposely distort problems and solutions in order to gain popularity and power.
Digital Virulence and Post-Truth in Light of Baudrillard’s Science-Fiction Theory of Pataphysics
Is this science-fiction prognosis of a digital-led human destiny true or false – and could it be the actual question of the so-called post-truth age?
The Challenges of Epistemic Communities in Shaping Policy in the Age of Post-Truth
By offering an exclusive expert-policy nexus, epistemic communities overlook the significance of communicating knowledge and fostering public debate on policy issues.
Postcolonial Gaslighting and Greenland: When Post-Truth Gets in the Way of Independence
The challenges to Greenland’s autobiographical self, in terms of its colonial past, destabilises perceptions of reality and prevent the possibility of agency.
Beyond Post-Truth: I-War and the Desire to be an Ethical All-American
The truth is divided and incomplete because the subject is barred from knowing the complete truth of their own subjectivity. By understanding this, we can begin to build a different democracy.
Post-Truth and Post- Democracy: The Dark Side of the Democratic Planet
Post-truth tends to be a dissimulation of lies and the relations between truth and post-truth are not ambiguous.
US Foreign Wars, Mass Marketing, and the Development of Post-Truth Politics
Reality-shaping repetition of talking points, taglines and catchphrases can be traced back to the propaganda campaign of the Wilson administration in 1917.
Τrolling IR About Trolling in International Affairs
Despite trolling instances of resistance to power structures, the state-centric embracement or hijacking of trolling can hardly be missed, along with the ‘disrupt the opponent/rival’ mode.
