NETWORKS OF CONSONANT DESIRES: THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF COGNITIVE POLYPHASIA IN THE POST-TRUTH AGE

Abstract

The article reflects on how the versions of truth are constructed in the face of the post-truth phenomenon. In order to do so, it proposes a theoretical understanding of the ways in which individuals formulate their points of view and how their knowledge relates, both individually and socially. From the perspectives of Social Psychology and Sociology, situates the post-truth phenomenon historically. It sees in the new forms of socialization of information and in the logic of digital social networks movements that broaden the search for cognitive consonance and thus distance us from the diversity of thoughts. Such occurrence hinders the realization of the hypothesis of cognitive polyphasia (the dialectical construction of more tolerant knowledge from the coexistence of different types of rationality in the same individual or social group), opening space for discourses of hatred and fascism.