<nettime> Fake News: The Commodification of Ignorance

Medienkultur A-Z: Fake News.

Thu, 07.04.2022, 18:00–19:30

Factcheck on «Fake News» is a conversation with artist David Garcia, Dutch curator

Annet Dekker, Swiss journalist Daniel Ryser and Ukrainian activist Kateryna Botanova.

After an introduction David Garcia’s introduction *The Commodification of Ignorance*

the invited guests and the audience will explore and critique these ideas.

The introduction will argue that it is the *politicisation* of science and technical

expertise that has given rise to what is sometimes called the epistemic turn in politics.

It is the political logic that today governs the void that was once dominated by the

ideological clash of left and right.

It is a supreme irony that it is this cult of knowledge that drives the proliferation of

Its opposite, junk-data and sub-prime facts, where conspiracy cult leaders can confidently

urge their followers ‘to do their own research’ in a media landscape in which *ignorance*

has become a commodity more precious than gold.

HEK (House of Electronic Arts)

Freilager-Platz 9
CH-4142 Münchenstein / Basel

and Zoom