From the 'truth' of antiquity to contemporary conspiratorial conviction, the authors of Rhetoric Before and Beyond Post-Truth make a strong case that the West, with notable exceptions, has always been post-truth, understood in the rhetorical traditions as contingent to a time, culture, and the discourse networks that span across them. With the frame that global capitalism is shifting from neoliberalism toward the technoliberalism of digital platform realities, each author advances fascinating insights into how communities past and present have wrestled over questions of truth, not just in argument, but affectively in emergent ecologies of data. This is a foundational collection, the first of its kind to directly address the epistemological crisis hastened and created by the arrival of the era of artificial intelligence and dictatorships. It advances a powerfully useful vocabulary, gleaned across centuries, for rhetorically reckoning with our current conjuncture, projecting possible futures and the coming planetary polycrisis. This is crucial reading right now and for scholars of the future, human or otherwise.