Senter for utvikling og miljø ved UiO arrangerer i samarbeid med Litteraturhuset i Oslo en åpen forelesning med professor Steve Fuller fra University of Warwick:

With the blatant disregard for fact, science, and expertise that marked both Brexit and the 2016 U.S. presidential election many have been lead to think that we have now entered the age of post-truth. As if to emphasize the point, Oxford Dictionaries in 2016 made post-truth their word of the year – giving voice to widespread concerns that truth and facts were now being washed away by a wave of populism.

However, in his recent book, Post-Truth: Knowledge as a Power Game, acclaimed sociologist Steve Fuller suggests that the supposed novelty of the post-truth condition is a misunderstanding, and nothing much to worry about. Can our current predicament be taken as a positive sign of the democratisation of knowledge?

The event is free and open to all, but please register: https://www.sum.uio.no/english/research/news-and-events/events/guest-lectures-seminars/2019/whos-afraid-of-post-truth.html