A rarefação do saber e a refração da verdade: a transformação das políticas da verdade após Foucault

Lucas Sloboda

doi:10.5433/1679-0383.2026.v47.53828

Authors

Lucas Sloboda Universidade de São Paulo https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4429-3701

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5433/1679-0383.2026.v47.53828

Keywords:

Politics of truth, Discourse, Subject supposed to know, Discursive microphysics, Neoliberalism

Abstract

In this article I seek to analyze how the processes of rarefaction of knowledge discourses and the emergence of the subject supposed to know as a new agent in the political economy of truth reconfigure the panorama of the politics of truth in contemporary times in relation to the analyses proposed by Michel Foucault. Articulating concepts from Foucauldian analysis, such as discourse, truth and power, I argue that current political rationality is moving away from that described by Foucault in the 20th century, shifting from a political economy of truth centered on the specific intellectual and the traditional institutions of knowledge to a discursive microphysics led by the common man. Based on this shift, I propose that the rarefaction of the matrices of knowledge production and the refraction of truth in algorithmic spaces of enunciation imply new forms of subjectivation and government of conduct, in which the subject not only consumes, but refracts the true according to their protected social sphere. Thus, the article aims to demonstrate how the new strategies of veridiction operate at the level of enunciation, producing discursive and political effects that rationalize truth in a fragmented, personalized way, potentially captured by power devices immersed in digital technologies and neoliberal rationality.

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Author Biography

Lucas Sloboda, Universidade de São Paulo

Bachelor’s degree in Letters from the University of São Paulo. PhD candidate in the Social Psychology program at the Institute of Psychology of the University of São Paulo.

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