Moving from a critical reading of Hannah Arendt’s view of the relationship between truth and politics, this essay reframes the relationship between post-truth and politics within contemporary democracies, where a) truth acquires the same status of radical immanence as neoliberal governmentality and the same status of equivalence and exchangeability as commodities and the market, b) the imperative of transparency redefines the public sphere, c) the theatre of representation transforms into the set of presentification, without any border between the visible and the invisible, the sayable and the unsayable. Within such a framework the parresiastic practice of saying one’s own truth must be reconsidered, alongside and beyond the foucauldian proposal, as a relational and political practice rather than an individual and ethical style of life.

La palabra post-verdad indica condiciones en las que la influencia de los hechos objetivos en la formación de la opinión pública era menor que la de las emociones o las creencias personales. Este trabajo tiene el objetivo de proponer una reflexion iusfilosófica sobre la post-verdad en la política a partir de su génesis histórico-conceptual, que corresponde a la edad del posmodernismo, y que continúa la revolución tecnológica global que comenzó en los años ochenta del siglo pasado y definió su dominio Sociopolítico. Este trabajo, también analiza las tesis de Hannah Arendt, acerca de los totalitarismos y los escándalos americanos de los Pentagon Papers.

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This paper, first published in German in Le Foucaldien 4(1) 2018 and in English in Le Foucaldien 6(1) 2020, explores Bruno Latour’s critique of contemporary critical theory. According to Latour, poststructuralist conceptions of critical inquiry are becoming increasingly outdated. In our “post-factual” era, attempting to expose facts as results of power-laden processes of social construction plays into the hands of anti-scientific obscurantists. This is not to say, however, that one ought to opt for some reductionist notion of objectivity. Instead, Latour proposes a new form of critical realism. While we agree with Latour about the necessity of widening our epistemological paradigm, we deem his critique of poststructuralism unfair and exaggerated. Moreover, we argue that he fails to account for the relationship between epistemology, power, and subjectivity. Since Foucault, on the other hand, succeeds where Latour falls short and probes into this very relationship, his is a form of critique that remains crucial to tackling the current crisis of truth.

En este artículo trataré de esbozar la evolución de la idea de verdad en la experiencia moderna. Al hacerlo, trataré con tres autores: Koselleck, Weber y Blumenberg. Analizaré la idea de verdad en estrecha relación con la cuestión de la política, es decir, con la cuestión de la res publica, de la formación de la comunidad, de la totalidad social, pero también con el espacio cada vez mayor de la técnica en nuestra condición actual.

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El artículo quiere ofrecer una reflexión sobre la peculiaridad del populismo ruso que, a lo largo de los años, ha perdido la originaria connotación para afirmarse como un fenómeno híbrido que une elementos propios del populismo contemporáneo con aspectos específicos de la tradición rusa. La escasa participación de cuerpos intermedios, el uso de un discurso mesiánico para justificar nuevos proyectos políticos, y la afirmación de líderes carismáticos que actúan en nombre de un pueblo visto como una masa indistinta incapaz de hacer oír su voz, son condiciones propias de fenómenos populistas que han caracterizado la historia de Rusia también. El mismo Putin, a pesar de no haber surgido de una plataforma populista, se ha convertido en un modelo de referencia para los populistas del siglo XXI perpetuando en su país un sistema que impide la consolidación de una democracia sustancial en favor de un poder autoritario fuertemente personalizado.

The Supreme Court has issued its decision in NIFLA v. Becerra, a 5–4 vote holding that the state of California cannot compel pregnancy-resource centers to advertise for the state’s abortion services. This decision represents a considerable victory for both the right to free speech and the conscience rights of pro-life Americans. The case concerned California’s Reproductive FACT Act, which mandated that both licensed and unlicensed women’s-health clinics (crisis-pregnancy or pregnancy-resource centers) not performing abortions had to provide a pre-written notice to clients. Though the law related specifically to abortion, free speech was the fundamental issue at stake. This paper analyzes the history of abortion in US legislation and the perspective of one of its fundamental civil rights.

Italian infotainment, with the recent shift “from information to sensation” has made the question of the ethical dimension of newsmedia even more problematic, showing unforeseen consequences of the show perspective in newscoverage. In the paper the theme of social responsibility of the journalistic media is presented in connection with the recent changes of the digital media and their blurring of real and fiction, as well as of languages and narrative styles. A critical perspective of the “Italian declination” of show-journalism will focus on the relationship between vision of the sufferings offered to distracted viewers of planetary audiences and their concrete possibilities of a consequent action.