"Second Moments" of Post-truth: On Tertiary Retention, Feminism, and Hegel.

The essay tries to weave together three interlocking themes: feminism, Hegel, and tertiary retention, which pivot around the question posed by Bruno Latour in 2004: "Why has critique run out of steam?" In less than two decades since, the post-truth era magnifies Latour's question, aggravating the already complex challenge science faces in advancing the global climate change agenda. In this vein, the paper takes the feminist position of Donna Haraway and her engagement with Latour. This particular engagement necessarily escalates the issue of the post-factual era. Finally, this engagement, as the paper builds around the lesson of feminism and the paradoxical legacy of Hegel, gathers around the important concept of tertiary retention (developed by Bernard Stiegler) regarding the creation of historical memory amid the epochal loss of attention through the global infrastructures of digitizing human knowledge, desire, and experience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]