From Post-truth to Epistemic Populism: A Science, Technology and Society (STS) Perspective

Post-truth is a concept that has been imposed by journalism and politics on other fields of knowledge, but its ambiguity has raised many questions. Particularly, post-truth seems to point, in current political affairs, to certain realities previously explored and known in Latin America: populisms. However, what seems to be specific of the current debate, as shown in the way science, technology and society studies (STS) have discussed it, is the entanglement between populism and knowledge (and its forms of production). This relationship is what our notion of epistemic populism wants to grasp.