For an Automedia Truth Regime
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Igor Galligo - Oral presentation
Since the rise of conservative populist politics in Western countries, we are now witnessing an explosion of analyses diagnosing a crisis of the concept of Truth in political debates. The epistemic foundations of democratic debate are being undermined – we are told – by the convergent determination of digital social networks developed by Big Tech and the ideology of post-modernity (Foucault, Derrida, Lyotard, etc.) to simultaneously usher us into the age of Post-Truth, Post-Politics and Conspiracy Theory (Ferraris, Noudelmann, Tiercelin, Revault d’Allonnes, etc.). If we consider, contrary to these critiques – with Arendt and Cassin – that rhetoric is consubstantial with democracy, our aim here would not be to defend rhetoric against philosophy (as if it were a matter of replaying the debate of philosophy (Plato) against rhetoric (Protagoras) in the era of Big Tech), but to attempt to take advantage of this crisis of the contemporary political truth regime within a new techno-economic context in order to lay the foundations of a new organology (Stiegler) of truth in the Auto-media era.
10.06.2025
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Research Colloquium on The Disruptive Condition
16.03.23 → …
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- Philosophy - epistemology, crisis of Truth, Post-Truth, Conspiracy Theory, post-modernity, organology
- Digital media - digital social networks, Big Tech
- Politics - political debates, democracy, conservative populist politics, Post-Politics, rhetoric