The article provides a multidimensional analysis of the post-truth phenomenon from historical aspect, as well an instrumental means achieving informational-communicational goal; way positioning in relation to significant aspects socio-political reality; and political technology aims at ensuring competitive advantages, etc. Post-truth is conceived form specific information communication product ...

This article explores how ‘biology’ – in the sense that bodies are increasingly understood in biological terms, from the molecular to the species level – is becoming more central in the recognition of political worth, and I argue that humanitarians are key players in producing this reality. I focus on the role biology plays in the politics of immigration. Combining ethnographic research with un...

The term “basic research” is ubiquitous in present debates on policy in science and higher education. It is a term with positive connotations, important for example in legitimising traditional universities. The popular term “research” generally corresponds to “research and development” (R&D) in official statistics. This includes “applied research” and “technological development” as well as “bas...

The politics and ethics of participatory development have been a topic of vibrant debate since the 1990s. While proponents assert that participation emancipates and empowers marginalized peoples, critics assert that it enacts new forms of control and regulation. This paper reads these debates through the analytical lens offered by assemblage thinking. Assemblage allows us to foreground affectiv...

We live with a complex conceptual inheritance that draws equally on the thought of classical Greece, Christianity, and the Enlightenment. Oversimplifying greatly, we can say that the Greeks formulated the ambition to subject the soul and the state to the order of reason; the Christians turned from reason to a will informed by grace; and the Enlightenment turned both reason and will toward a new...

The significance of psychology in studying politics is embedded in philosophical issues as well as behavioural pursuits. For the former is often associated with Sigmund Freud and his followers. The latter is inspired by the writings of Harold Lasswell. Political psychology or psychopolitics has its own impression on political thought ever since it deciphers the concept of human nature and polit...

This article presents an attempt to understand the relationship between digital populism and post-truth politics. At first, we will try fuzzy semantic category of populism. Next, examine growth right-wing in Europe its main characteristics. Finally, analyze how current model networked communication, particularly direct anatomy social networks, become a fertile field for dissemination populist r...

The theory of ethics that can be distilled from the work of Jacques Lacan and Alain Badiou bears no resemblance to many commonly received notions of the ethical, especially any that would link ethics to a system of morality. In fact, ethics is not necessarily the central concept in their work, even in Lacan’s The Ethics of Psychoanalysis or Badiou’s recent Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding ...

BACKGROUND The evidence on the association between politics and health is scarce considering the importance of this topic for population health. Studies that investigated the effect of different political regimes on health outcomes show inconsistent results. METHODS Bayesian time-series cross-section analyses are used to examine the overall impact of regional politics on variations in Italian...