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2020-08-23

The Women Making Conspiracy Theories Beautiful

How the domestic aesthetics of Instagram repackage QAnon for the masses When I showed some of these Instagram accounts to Sophie Bishop, a lecturer in digital humanities at King’s College London, she identified in all of them a “very recognizable,” feminine-coded aesthetic. “It’s aspirational, and then it’s also authentic enough to allow for relatability,” she […]

Article posted by John Verdon / Articles, CACOR Values / Account held Honest, Accounting for Values, conversation, fake news, Honest Account, honest evidence, Honesty, Post-Truth, Truth-is-Dead-Long-Live-Honesty, values, Valuing Values Leave a Comment

2020-07-04

There should never be heroes in science

Some scientists make their careers by criticising other’s research. But who watches the watchmen? …those self-critical, self-correcting principles of science simply don’t allow for hero-worship. Even the strongest critics of science need themselves to be criticised; those who raise the biggest questions about the way we do research need themselves to be questioned. Healthy science […]

Article posted by John Verdon / Articles, CACOR Values / Accounting for Values, Honest Accounts, Honesty, Reasoning, Science, Skepticism, Truth-is-Dead-Long-Live-Honesty, values, Valuing Values, Wisdom-as-Multiple-ways-of-Reasoning Leave a Comment

2019-07-21

Cory Doctorow: Fake News Is an Oracle

What is it that makes some people vulnerable to anti-vax messages? I think it’s the trauma of living in a world where there is ample evidence that our truth-seeking exer­cises can’t be trusted. That’s a genuinely scary idea, because if the truth is open to the highest bidder, then we are facing a future of […]

Article posted by John Verdon / Articles, CACOR Values / Conspiracy Theories, conversation, Denialism, Establishment Media, fake news, Institutions of Conversation, Social Fabric, Truth, Truth-is-Dead-Long-Live-Honesty Leave a Comment

2018-02-24

Philip K. Dick and the Fake Humans

We live in Philip K. Dick’s future, not George Orwell’s or Aldous Huxley’s. The two basic topics which fascinate me are “What is reality?” and “What constitutes the authentic human being?” Over the twenty-seven years in which I have published novels and stories I have investigated these two interrelated topics over and over again. the […]

Article posted by John Verdon / Articles, CACOR Values / Digital Environment, Dystopia, Fake Everything, fake news, Future of Media, Media, Mixed Realities, propaganda, Truth-is-Dead-Long-Live-Honesty, values, Valuing Values Leave a Comment

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