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Things that trigger thoughts about fact vs fake, and what is and isn't believable nowadays
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people are generally pretty unwilling to invest time and effort in checking the accuracy of their memories
theconversation.com • Are Memories Reliable? Expert Explains How They Change More Than We Realise
What we need most are temporal structures that stabilize life. When everything is short-term, life loses all stability. Stability comes over long stretches of time: faithfulness, bonds, integrity, commitment, promises, trust. These are the social practices that hold a community together. They all have a ritual character. They all require a lot of t... See more
Byung-Chul Han • All That Is Solid Melts Into Information
Friedrich Nietzsche once said that our happiness consists of the possession of a non-negotiable truth. Today, we no longer have such non-negotiable truths. Instead, we have an over-abundance of information. I am not sure that the information society is a continuation of the Enlightenment. Maybe we need a new kind of enlightenment. On a new enlighte... See more
Byung-Chul Han • All That Is Solid Melts Into Information
Digital communication redirects the flows of communication. Information is spread without forming a public sphere. It is produced in private spaces and distributed to private spaces. The web does not create a public.
This has highly deleterious consequences for the democratic process. Social media intensify this kind of communication without commun... See more
This has highly deleterious consequences for the democratic process. Social media intensify this kind of communication without commun... See more
Byung-Chul Han • All That Is Solid Melts Into Information
Information goes along with fundamental suspicion. The more we are confronted with information, the more our suspicion grows. Information is Janus-faced — it simultaneously produces certainty and uncertainty. A fundamental structural ambivalence is inherent in an information society.
Truth, by contrast, reduces contingency. We cannot build a stable... See more
Truth, by contrast, reduces contingency. We cannot build a stable... See more
Byung-Chul Han • All That Is Solid Melts Into Information
Truth illuminates the world, while information lives off the attraction of surprise, pulling us into a permanent frenzy of fleeting moments.
We greet information with a fundamental suspicion: Things might be otherwise. Contingency is a trait of information, and for this reason, fake news is a necessary element of the informational order. So fake ne... See more
We greet information with a fundamental suspicion: Things might be otherwise. Contingency is a trait of information, and for this reason, fake news is a necessary element of the informational order. So fake ne... See more
Nathan Gardels • All That Is Solid Melts Into Information
We are very well informed, yet somehow we cannot orient ourselves. The informatization of reality leads to its atomization — separated spheres of what is thought to be true.
But truth, unlike information, has a centripetal force that holds society together. Information, on the other hand, is centrifugal, with very destructive effects on social cohe... See more
But truth, unlike information, has a centripetal force that holds society together. Information, on the other hand, is centrifugal, with very destructive effects on social cohe... See more
