Assuming truth is a woman--what then? Searching for Nietzsche's woman-truth in the Post-truth era.

This essay begins with a line from Friedrich Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil: "Assuming truth is a woman - what then?" As Nietzsche was the first Western philosopher to famously proclaim that truth is a lie, it seems appropriate to return to him in the post-truth era. Here I focus specifically on the links in Nietzsche among truth, woman, and seduction, bringing in Jean Baudrillard's work Seduction, in which he makes similar moves, referring specifically to what has befallen true seduction in the digital age. I then move to Alex Garland's 2014 film Ex Machina to argue that the Artificial Intelligence featured there reveals to us the links that still exist among truth, woman, and seduction, and she does so precisely through the medium in which "alternative facts" and "fake news" are propagated. She represents a counter-force to these deceptions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]