Entre polêmicas abertas e veladas

Abstract

The 'post-truth' world [...] shows total disregard for even visible and verifiable facts and hence any consideration for truth seems far-fetched. Unlike the 'world of lies' that knows the truth and conceals it with lies, the post-truth world freely distorts truth in 'anything goes' approach. Lakshmi Bandlamudi 1 Every ideological field uses language, but each one does it in its own way. Mikhail Bakhtin 2 [...] to read is to make our body work [...] at the invitation of text's signs, of all the languages that traverse it [...] Roland Barthes 3 Many Brazilian and global events have surprised and shocked us in recent times. Those events are amplified by the virtual universe. Boundaries between public and private spaces and events become blurred and we start inhabiting a world of "posttruth," as many say. Among them we find Lakshmi Bandlamudi, whose words are also present in this editorial's first epigraph (2019, p.184). The reduced appreciation for scientific knowledge is one of the shocking aspects of our present reality, which has caused us, from scientific and academic spheres, distress. For this reason, Bakhtiniana's introductory texts published in the latest issues reminded readers of "this difficult moment for Brazilian research, Brazilian research development agencies, CNPq [Brazilian National Research Council], in particular, and for education in Brazil, in general." We are also aware that our research studies, carried out in the Humanities and Social sciences, are among those whose importance, perhaps,