Technoviduality and the post-truth phenomenon: truth as a technological taboo.

During the course of 21st century the connection between truth and human consciousness has been signaled by the phenomenon of post-truth and a technovidual form of subjectivity that conceives parts of its life and freedom as inextricable functions of machines and interconnected informational devices. This new technovidualized environment regenerates the post-truth phenomenon with a growing insensibility towards the conditions of verifiability or refutation of informational validity, by emphasizing emotionally upon facts and based on personal belief. The latter acquires in the internet era dynamics of broadcast, dispersion and reproduction of information, while cyberspace -contrary to physical reality- represents a space of personalized realm which is established as such by the desires, the ideas and the social surroundings of each user. Hence, there is an argument that connects the post-truth discussion with the technovidual, as a form of subjectivity which is corporeally, cognitively and mentally connected through embodied personalized devices (mobile phone, digital tablets, laptops, VR and AR gaming), to digital materiality, which is the current technological capacity of retrieving, distributing and storing information. In specific, we are living a transition from the ideological and discursive realm of modernity, where communication has been a face-to-face phenomenon, to a post-ideological and monologic communication, where contact and discussion over the public realm becomes private in cyberspace and therefore monologic since -I will argue- cyberspace is by definition adapted, created and administrated by each user/person. This new condition, i.e., a personalized space in cyberspace, re-shapes the face-to-face dialogue to a monologic gazing of the screen (screengaze), between a person and the cyberspace s/he engages with in a videographic sphere such as the internet. The questions to be asked consequently, concern the development of an unconscious but personalized homogeneity that takes place in the digital "microcosm" through which the technovidual of the 21st century apprehends the physical "megacosm". Primarily, to which extent the aforementioned condition reinforces the concept of post-truth and in which ways the latter threats as a form of transgression, but also as a form of taboo, the concept of truth which is first and foremost the epistemic a priori for all cognitive sciences and certainly of philosophy itself? In order to answer one needs to describe the main features of technovidual subjectivity and explain why and through which paths it develops monologically in a world which is more diverse and interlaced than ever. Is post-truth the hypermodern condition of an informational chaos or it represents the next step from individualistic to technovidualistic freedom?