Description
#NatureTruthPower: Environmental politics in the era of post-truth and digital platformsBram Büscher
Professor and Chair of the Sociology of Development and Change group at Wageningen University
How should we share the truth about the environmental crisis? At a moment when even the most basic facts about ecology and the climate face contestation and contempt, environmental advocates are at an impasse. Many have turned to social media and digital technologies to shift the tide. But what if their strategy is not only flawed, but dangerous?
In this presentation, Bram Büscher traces how environmental action is transformed through the political economy of digital platforms and the algorithmic feeds that have been instrumental to the rise of post-truth politics. Building on a novel account of post-truth as an expression of power under platform capitalism, he shows how environmental actors mediate between structural forms of platform power and the contingency of environmental issues in particular places. Key in understanding this mediation is a reconfiguration of the relations between nature, truth and power in the 21st century. Its upshot is the need for an environmental politics that radically reignites the art of speaking truth to power.
| Period | 18 May 2022 |
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| Event title | Human Entities 2022 seminar |
| Event type | Seminar |
| Location | Lisbon, PortugalShow on map |