Historian Every Saturday: Olha Maklyuk. The Phenomenon of Post-Truth (28.09.2024)
A lecture by the historian Olha Maklyuk (the “Historian Every Saturday” series) on the phenomenon of post-truth. Key points: post-truth as a condition in which emotions matter more than facts (the term coined by Ralph Keyes, 2004); the “cocktail” of truth and falsehood; Russian propaganda is built on this mechanism — unverifiable phrases “charged with emotion”; and empirical confirmation of the decline of rationality (PNAS, 2021). A source for the article on post-truth.
Key moments
- 6:50 Post-truth: responding not to facts but to emotions (Oxford Dictionary)
- 7:04 The term was coined by Ralph Keyes in 2004 (The Post-Truth Era)
- 9:56 Russian propaganda is 'charged with emotion', built on unverifiable ready-made phrases
- 10:32 PNAS 2021 study: a decline of rationality in language after roughly 2007