Terms such as "post-factual" and "alternative facts" are in vogue. They indicate that a battle for the reality of reality seems to have broken out in many societies.
In conversation with Dr Janosch Steuwer (NS-DOK),Dr Nils Kumkar (University of Bremen) looks at these phenomena from a different perspective and argues that "alternative facts" should be understood as discursive smokescreens in the context of polarized debates. They work, not as a contribution to the construction of an alternative reality, but as a communicative destruction of reality that allows us to carry on as before against our better judgment.
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