Defenders of the narrative. I work backwards from problems we see to the sources of specific ideas underlying them to better understand them https://twitter.com/premodernism/status/918505216147886080 …
And believed it was. This is relativism + scepticism abt objective truth + paranoia abt language (all old) applied to new phenomenon.
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Where and when are you giving your talk?
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The Battle of Ideas at the Barbican on the 28th of October. 'The Academic Roots of Post-Truth Society' is my panel.
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This will also be part of a longer talk at the University of Sydney in November at their Post-Truth event.
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I would love a copy!
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I will gladly send you my final draft of the shorter one when its done by the end of next week. It will only be about 1500 words.
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And you dump the idea of truth at everybody’s peril!
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Yes, exactly.
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A good lecture on language might begin and end with three words - Language is slippery
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