On March 6th I wrote
A Funny- not hah hah- Thing About Alternative Facts
Today, April 10th, I read the following in
Artforum, one of those journals whose text and texture I had to master along my "art journey" as described on the
A Funny.... It comes from an interview by Michele Kuo, the magazine's editor, with Adam Szymczyk, director of this year's Documenta 14. I take it out of context, but it definitely echoes what I said on my blog entry. ....Though I might think it is more funny, as in hah hah, than she does (-;
MK: Absolutely. And I think one of the most ironic or shocking developments we’ve witnessed in the past two decades is the way that some of these strategies have been so handily appropriated by the Right. For example, the jettisoning of master narratives and the critique of empiricism have now been globalized and deployed in all these reactionary ways. The denial of climate change is an obvious case in point. But we face a real dilemma, because even though we need to resist the resurgence of “alternative facts,” we can’t go back to a naive conception of truth and objectivity.
still
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