The Social Critic as Liar: Wilde, Adorno, and the Crisis of Post-truth Politics

IF 1.4 4区 计算机科学 Q4 AUTOMATION & CONTROL SYSTEMS Discrete Event Dynamic Systems-Theory and Applications Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI:10.1353/tae.2023.0006
Patrick T Giamario
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Abstract:How does one speak the truth in a “post-truth” polity? This article turns to Oscar Wilde and Theodor Adorno to develop an account of critique as mendacious truth-telling that mobilizes the aesthetically pleasing, world-reconstructing power of lying embraced by contemporary neofascists on behalf of democratic social transformation. Rejecting demystification and empirical truth-telling as incapable of responding to the post-truth predicament, the critic as liar combats the “false lies” of neofascism by devising “fine lies” that imagine new, more egalitarian modes of social organization.
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作为说谎者的社会批评家:王尔德、阿多诺与后真相政治的危机
摘要:在“后真相”政体中,人们如何说出真相?本文转向奥斯卡·王尔德(Oscar Wilde)和西奥多·阿多诺(Theodor Adorno),将批评描述为一种虚假的真相讲述,它调动了当代新法西斯主义者代表民主社会转型所接受的美学愉悦、重建世界的谎言力量。作为说谎者的批评家拒绝去神秘化和经验的真相讲述,认为它们无法应对后真相的困境,他通过设计想象新的、更平等的社会组织模式的“精细谎言”,与新法西斯主义的“虚假谎言”作斗争。
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期刊介绍: The research on discrete event dynamic systems (DEDSs) is multi-disciplinary in nature and its development has been dynamic. Examples of DEDSs include manufacturing plants, communication networks, computer systems, management information databases, logistics systems, command-control-communication systems, robotics, and other man-made operational systems. The state processes of such systems cannot be described by differential equations in general. The aim of this journal, Discrete Event Dynamic Systems: Theory and Applications, is to publish high-quality, peer-reviewed papers on the modeling and control of, and all other aspects related to, DEDSs. In particular, the journal publishes papers dealing with general theories and methodologies of DEDSs and their applications to any particular subject, including hybrid systems, as well as papers discussing practical problems from which some generally applicable DEDS theories or methodologies can be formulated; The scope of this journal is defined by its emphasis on discrete events and the dynamic nature of the systems and on their modeling, control and optimization.
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