The Death of Truth
Believable: The Terrifying Future Of Fake News
Believable: The Terrifying Future Of Fake News
When facts are few, persuading the ignorant is relatively easy. But information abundance, already characteristic of early modern societies, engenders a degree of skepticism: The more there is to know, the more likely we feel that truth is elusive. Information super-abundance, or the condition of “digital plenitude,” as media scholar Jay David... See more
L. M. Sacasas • The Analog City and the Digital City
But now the Gutenberg Galaxy collapses, exposing objective truth to retribalization. The de-objectivation of truth began in the 20th century, with two main sources: mass media, focusing on group truths, and academia, deconstructing objective truth for its “pragmatic” redesign.