Show us your traces: Traceability as a measure for the political acceptability of truth-claims

Contemporary Political Theory 14 (3):197-212 (2015)
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This article considers some political potentialities of the post-constructivist proposal for substituting truth with traceability. Traceability is a measure of truthfulness in which the rationality of a truth-claim is found in accounting for the work done to maintain links back to an internal referent through a chain of mediations. The substitution of traceability for truth is seen as necessary to move the entire political domain towards a greater responsiveness to the events of the natural-social world. In particular, it seeks to disarm the strategy of ...

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Stephen Acreman
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