Igor Galligo: "For an Automedia Truth Regime"
10. Jun
6:00 pm, C40.530
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
Igor Galligo is a guest scientist at the The Disruptive Condition research initiative. He holds master’s degrees in contemporary philosophy, visual arts and aesthetics from the University of Paris 1 Sorbonne, and in political science from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. He was associate researcher at the Institut de recherche et d’innovation in Paris and UC Berkeley. His current interests are in the critique of the concept of Post-Truth and the development of epistemological alternatives within sociology, information, and media sciences through an organological approach
Language: English
An event organized by the Research Initiative The Disruptive Condition
Contact: Nicolas Schneider (nicolas.schneider@leuphana.de)