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The Politics of Exposure: Truth After Post-Facts
- Author(s):
- Zahid R. Chaudhary (see profile)
- Date:
- 2020
- Group(s):
- 2020 MLA Convention
- Subject(s):
- Neoliberalism, Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984, Psychoanalysis, Mass media--Study and teaching, Spying, Area studies
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- media and culture, Jacques Lacan, digital, Michel Foucault, Media studies, Surveillance studies
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/32g4-2f59
- Abstract:
- This essay analyzes contemporary politics of truth across overlapping contexts: the predicament of whistleblowers, the proliferation of digital disinformation, the extractive imperatives of data economies, and the impossibility of exposing the truth when exposé becomes itself a game. The essay reads the recent cultural and political interest in exposure as a signpost for linking a diverse range of cultural and geopolitical phenomena: the rise of neoliberal financialization as well as surveillance capitalism, the biopolitical management of increasingly precarious workers, the displacement of populations. "Exposure" names a rationality, a biopolitical condition, a political strategy, a cultural-epistemic priority, and a collective mood.
- Metadata:
- xml
- Published as:
- Journal article Show details
- Pub. DOI:
- 10.1353/elh.2020.0020
- Publisher:
- Project Muse
- Pub. Date:
- 2020-6-14
- Journal:
- ELH
- Volume:
- 87
- Issue:
- 2
- Page Range:
- 301 - 324
- ISSN:
- 1080-6547
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 3 years ago
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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