Fake News. Critiques of Knowledge, Truth and Objectivity - Einzelansicht

What are the philosophical implications for knowledge/truth/objectivity within cultures increasingly connected and globally networked through digital technologies? How does gender factor into conditions of truth and how is gender complicated by race, class, caste, standpoint? How can theoretical texts and practical examples from other places and times inform our social and political perspectives on knowledge/truth/objectivity in the digital present? This seminar takes a look at feminist, intersectional and post-colonial critiques of these seemingly straightforward categories and what they might mean from different situated perspectives, especially under the global spread and constant availability of technological (“real” and “fake”) information-dissemination.