This book engages with post-truth as a problem of societal order and for scholarly analysis. It claims that post-truth is more deeply entangled with main Western imaginations of knowledge societies than commonly recognised.

Kjetil Rommetveit is associate professor at the Centre for the Study of the Sciences and Humanities, University of Bergen.

Introduction: post-truth - another fork in modernity's path Part 1: Foundations 1. Truth as what kind of functional myth for modern politics? A historical case-study 2. Post-truth or pre-emptive truth? STS and the genealogy of the present 3. The moment of post-truth for Science and Technology Studies Part 2: Inquiries 4. Post-truth dystopia: Huxleyan distraction or Orwellian control? 5. Public reasoning in "post-truth" times: technoscientific imaginaries of "smart" futures 6. Tracing networked infrastructures for post-truth: public dissections of and by techno-political Leviathans 7. Governing the Median Estate: hyper-truth and post-truth in the regulation of digital innovations