The Politics of Exposure: Truth After Post-Facts

This essay analyzes contemporary politics of truth across overlapping contexts: the predicament of whistleblowers, the proliferation of digital disinformation, the extractive imperatives of data economies, and the impossibility of exposing the truth when exposé becomes itself a game. The essay reads the recent cultural and political interest in exposure as a signpost for linking a diverse range of cultural and geopolitical phenomena: the rise of neoliberal financialization as well as surveillance capitalism, the biopolitical management of increasingly precarious workers, the displacement of populations. "Exposure" names a rationality, a biopolitical condition, a political strategy, a cultural-epistemic priority, and a collective mood.