7. WHAT HAPPENED TO SOCIAL FACTS?”
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American Anthropologist, 2019, Vital Topic Forum, edited by Ho, Karen& Jillian
R. Cavanaugh
social facts (Durkheim)
anthropology on rumors and gossips
factual truth (Arendt)
“…what is at stake in these powerful inversions and ‘modern political lies,’
driven by the ‘interests of men,’ is that they can become ‘so big that they
require a complete rearrangement of the whole factual texture—the making of
another reality, as it were, into which they will fit without seam, crack, or
fissure’”
8. what is at stake is not about the death of belief in fact or the absence
of truth but rather the appearance of competing parallel spheres of
veridiction in which ideological engines of truth-making radiate facts
from normative institutional centers all the way into conspiratorial
fringe speculation on both ends of the political spectrum
Dominic Boyer, 2018, “Our Post-Post-Truth Condition”
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9. If the Enlightenment project can be thought of as an attempt to
establish a new epistemological settlement, displacing an older one,
then perhaps what we are witnessing is a new struggle – or a new
phase in an ongoing struggle – over theories of truth, belief and
knowledge, in the context of a radically altered information
environment.
Jonathan Mair, 2017, “Post-Truth Anthropology”
41. ▸ Cofacts
▸ (NPOV) :
▸ “given enough eyeballs all bugs are shallow”
▸ &
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“Cofacts is not a place of absolute truth; instead, it is a platform to
display various ‘facts,’ including fact-check reports made by other
organizations......We believe in the free market of speech. Our goal is
to become a Wikipedia of online rumors.” (MrOrz)
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43. “A recursive public is a public that is vitally concerned with the
material and practical maintenance and modification of the technical,
legal, practical, and conceptual means of its own existence as a public;
it is a collective independent of other forms of constituted power and
is capable of speaking to existing forms of power through the
production of actually existing alternatives.” (8)
(Free and Open Source Software Movement):
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“recursive publics” (Kelty 2008)
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“…partial, locatable, critical knowledges sustaining the possibility of
webs of connections called solidarity in politics and shared
conversations in epistemology.”
Donna Haraway, 1988, “Situated Knowledge”
▸ the material-semiotic technologies of openness
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▸ Mair
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