Whose Truth: A Dialogic Interplay With Online Political Dialogue(s)
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While “post-truth” is positioned as a “truism” of the modern age, that legitimates deceit and is weaponized via social networks, this paper takes an ironic stance to this claim. Drawing on the philosophical writings of Bakhtin enables a playing with dimensions of truth as received (istina) and lived (pravda) in parodic interplays with information, misinformation, and disinformation. In this view, truth is no more “after-the-fact” (as in “posttruth”), than it is absent. Rather, truths legitimacy, or, conversely, its fraudulence, rests in the social spaces that grant it seriousness, or foolishness for that matter. In public, so-called democratic, social networking spaces there are arguably multiple truth games at play. Importantly, not all are mastered by the so-called “powerful.” Taking a jesting stance, political deceit can be understood as a dialogic act of trickery that draws its legitimacy (and power) from those who benefit least; while those who have the most to gain are at liberty to benefit from its consequence. Inspired by Bakhtin’s late-life interviews, a reading of social networking encounters as political dialogues, that strategically play with dimensions of truth is investigated. This conceptualisation of political dialogues, as responses to everyday issues of political concern, enables an examination of diverse, and thus never fully merging truths, facilitating analyses of richer ideological becomings. An entreaty that explores such communions according to their strategic purpose over time and space, in dialogic struggles with truth and power.
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Philosophy of Education, ISSN: 2771-9618 (Print), 80(3), 80-98. https://www.philofed.org
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