ABSTRACT
This introductory chapter presents the main theme by drawing attention to democracy’s building block, information. It reveals how information plays a key role in certain form of dialectics in which the inclusionary promise of (representative) democracy, with ‘we, the people’ as its condensed spirit, is subverted by mostly subtle exclusionary policies. With an overwhelming focus on the elemental features of information the chapter sets the stage for understanding the core role of information in constructing the postfactual era, marked by privileging fiction over fact.
