ABSTRACT
This chapter advances a series of democratic alternatives to contemporary post-truth worlds. Taking its cue from the empirical analysis of the second part and the historical contextualizing of the third, the chapter seeks to fundamentally reframe our existing way of thinking about our democratic moment. The chapter argues that if we are to go beyond the current democratic deficit facing advanced capitalist states, we have to acknowledge the constitutive role of dissent, dispute, and difference. If we are to deepen our democratic institutions, the chapter argues following radical democratic theorists like Chantal Mouffe, we have to allow for vibrant and agonistic clashes to take place. From this account, the chapter offers a series of strategies for radicalizing democracy. Far from fully-fledged policy ideas, these are strategic devices pointing the way towards other means of reclaiming democracy. As a whole, then, the chapter argues for the necessity of democratic alternatives to the existing hegemonic discourses of our time.
