Sergei Prozorov is Professor of Political Science at the University of Jyväskylä. He is the author of books including The Biopolitics of Stalinism (2016) and Agamben and Politics (2014), also published by Edinburgh University Press. He has published over 30 articles in major international journals. His research interests include political philosophy, theories of democracy and totalitarianism, biopolitics and governance.

Rarely does a book of political philosophy manage to triangulate three themes of public interest as effectively as Sergei Prozorov's Biopolitics After Truth. The book weaves together continental philosophy, contemporary political theories of post-truth, and a study of post-Soviet politics with clarity and concision to diagnose the emergence of post-truth authoritarianism. In doing so the book engages debates in international political theory, security studies, continental philosophy, and studies of Soviet and post-Soviet Russia, and will be of interest to scholars of these topics.

• Introduction: The Word of the YearAgrippina: Post-Truth Avant la LettreOutline of the Argument1. The Regime of EquivalenceDiagnosis: There Are Only Bodies and LanguagesDefinition: Post-Proof, Post-Shame, Post-ConsensusRegime: Equivalence Vs EqualityContrast: Post-Truth Politics or Truth Politics?Paradigm: the Spread2. Subject to TruthFoucault: Why Is There Truth?Truth As a Procedure of Subjectivation: Foucault and BadiouAgamben: from Oaths to Tweets3. The Russification of the WestVladimir Zhirinovsky: the Rise of Postcommunist TrollingPara-Soviet Practices in the Post-Soviet EraWhere Meaning Runs DeepThe Epistemology of ConspiracismWhy So Serious?Globalising Post-Truth: How to Wash It All Away in the WestPussy Riot: How to Speak in a Non-Equivalent Manner4. The Truth Won’t Tell ItselfParrhesia: Disobedient DiscourseThe (Bio)Power of the PowerlessTruth As ForceGreta Thunberg: How to Follow the ScienceEquality, Equivalence and Democratic LifeCoda: On Error

Sergei Prozorov is Professor of Political Science at the University of Jyväskylä. He is the author of books including The Biopolitics of Stalinism (2016) and Agamben and Politics (2014), also published by Edinburgh University Press. He has published over 30 articles in major international journals. His research interests include political philosophy, theories of democracy and totalitarianism, biopolitics and governance.

Rarely does a book of political philosophy manage to triangulate three themes of public interest as effectively as Sergei Prozorov's Biopolitics After Truth. The book weaves together continental philosophy, contemporary political theories of post-truth, and a study of post-Soviet politics with clarity and concision to diagnose the emergence of post-truth authoritarianism. In doing so the book engages debates in international political theory, security studies, continental philosophy, and studies of Soviet and post-Soviet Russia, and will be of interest to scholars of these topics.

• Introduction: The Word of the YearAgrippina: Post-Truth Avant la LettreOutline of the Argument1. The Regime of EquivalenceDiagnosis: There Are Only Bodies and LanguagesDefinition: Post-Proof, Post-Shame, Post-ConsensusRegime: Equivalence Vs EqualityContrast: Post-Truth Politics or Truth Politics?Paradigm: the Spread2. Subject to TruthFoucault: Why Is There Truth?Truth As a Procedure of Subjectivation: Foucault and BadiouAgamben: from Oaths to Tweets3. The Russification of the WestVladimir Zhirinovsky: the Rise of Postcommunist TrollingPara-Soviet Practices in the Post-Soviet EraWhere Meaning Runs DeepThe Epistemology of ConspiracismWhy So Serious?Globalising Post-Truth: How to Wash It All Away in the WestPussy Riot: How to Speak in a Non-Equivalent Manner4. The Truth Won’t Tell ItselfParrhesia: Disobedient DiscourseThe (Bio)Power of the PowerlessTruth As ForceGreta Thunberg: How to Follow the ScienceEquality, Equivalence and Democratic LifeCoda: On Error

Sergei Prozorov is Professor of Political Science at the University of Jyväskylä. He is the author of books including The Biopolitics of Stalinism (2016) and Agamben and Politics (2014), also published by Edinburgh University Press. He has published over 30 articles in major international journals. His research interests include political philosophy, theories of democracy and totalitarianism, biopolitics and governance.

Rarely does a book of political philosophy manage to triangulate three themes of public interest as effectively as Sergei Prozorov's Biopolitics After Truth. The book weaves together continental philosophy, contemporary political theories of post-truth, and a study of post-Soviet politics with clarity and concision to diagnose the emergence of post-truth authoritarianism. In doing so the book engages debates in international political theory, security studies, continental philosophy, and studies of Soviet and post-Soviet Russia, and will be of interest to scholars of these topics.

• Introduction: The Word of the YearAgrippina: Post-Truth Avant la LettreOutline of the Argument1. The Regime of EquivalenceDiagnosis: There Are Only Bodies and LanguagesDefinition: Post-Proof, Post-Shame, Post-ConsensusRegime: Equivalence Vs EqualityContrast: Post-Truth Politics or Truth Politics?Paradigm: the Spread2. Subject to TruthFoucault: Why Is There Truth?Truth As a Procedure of Subjectivation: Foucault and BadiouAgamben: from Oaths to Tweets3. The Russification of the WestVladimir Zhirinovsky: the Rise of Postcommunist TrollingPara-Soviet Practices in the Post-Soviet EraWhere Meaning Runs DeepThe Epistemology of ConspiracismWhy So Serious?Globalising Post-Truth: How to Wash It All Away in the WestPussy Riot: How to Speak in a Non-Equivalent Manner4. The Truth Won’t Tell ItselfParrhesia: Disobedient DiscourseThe (Bio)Power of the PowerlessTruth As ForceGreta Thunberg: How to Follow the ScienceEquality, Equivalence and Democratic LifeCoda: On Error