Edin Hajdarpasic: What use is fact-checking against fact-free politics?
Asking historians to dig deep into bluntly ahistorical political claims is like sending a scuba-diving team into a bathtub. But beyond fact-checking obviously false claims, of what use can professional historians be to society? In an age of denialism, one has to embrace history’s political potentials instead of reducing them to the task of safekeeping facts.
In early November, a
report to the United Nations written by Christian Schmidt, the high
representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, was leaked to the press. In it,
Schmidt warned that the country was in danger of falling apart, with a ‘very
real’ prospect for a renewed civil war waged by armed Serb separatists. In the
days after, as news about an impending threat of war in Bosnia spread, I
received a few media inquiries asking if I, as a historian of the Balkans,
could write a short piece explaining the roots of the current crisis….
https://www.eurozine.com/what-use-is-fact-checking-against-fact-free-politics/
STANISLAV MARKELOV - Patriotism as a
diagnosis
Alexandre Koyré The Political Function of the Modern Lie
Colloquium: The Disappearing Present: Reflections on Ideology - October 16, 2020
Two lectures on time and ideology: January 23 and 24
A pre-history of post-truth, East and West. By MARCI SHORE
Michiko Kakutani - The death of truth: how we gave up on facts and ended up with Trump
Farewell to reality - WHY WE’RE POST-FACT by Peter Pomerantsev
Why can’t we agree on what’s true any more? By William Davies
David Foster Wallace - This Is Water
Alexander Klein: The politics of logic
Walter Benjamin: Capitalism as Religion
(1921)
