The Struggle for Academic Freedom in an Age of Post-truth

This essay situates the struggle for academic freedom and university autonomy at Boğaziçi University within broader framework of post-truth. Post-truth is defined as a disinvestment from long-established norms regulating what counts true, without introducing new criteria in their place. As such, it state constant disorientation. The main argument that post-truth has material power basis: neither an intellectual problem nor one can be solved by recourse to liberal rights. By briefly showing how neoliberalism, New Right, biopolitical governmentality connect reinforce each other, then asks signify given game power. resistance, argues, shows defending cannot solely matter.