The Politics of Ignorance is an exhibition and symposium that examines the strange relationship between the crisis of knowledge and the crisis of politics. And it does so from the novel perspective of knowledge’s dark sibling, ignorance. ‘..we are often unaware of the scope and structure of our ignorance. Ignorance… read more →
Extracts from talk at Haus der Elektronischen Künste (HeK) Basel “Commodifying Ignorance” “Doubt is our product, since it is the best means of competing with the ‘body of fact’ that exists in the mind of the general public.” (Internal memo of the Brown & Williamson tobacco company. 1969) Confected doubt… read more →