#agnotology — Public Fediverse posts

“The authoritarian practices required by fossil capital in the global south [and middle east] were often geographically separated from liberal forms of governance in the West. This made it possible for many… to remain ignorant of their complicity in fossil authoritarianism.”

"In the US post-war economy, fossil fuel systems functioned as the means to becoming a real man - if burning them entailed violence, this was constructed as an unfortunate side effect to be made invisible to privileged consumers. But fossil fuels have become a dead end, both for the planet and for the goal of middle-class jobs. In this context, burning fossil fuels can come to function as a knowingly violent experience, a reassertion of white masculine power on an unruly planet that is perceived to be increasingly in need of violent, authoritarian order."

from Cara Daggett’s 2018 article “Petro-masculinity”

#sadism #masculinity #oilAndGas #fossilFuels #energy #manliness #MAGA #growth #development #agnotology

Academic Freedom index:
- good are northern countries;
- worst is Saudi Arabia;
- Pakistan, the USA and France have the same trend to zero;
- Germany and Israel are not shown because good and unchanged in the recent years, which demonstrates bias.

Try it: https://v-dem.net/data_analysis/VariableGraph/

#science #agnotology #ignorance #academicChatter #academicFreedom #NL #university #research #Pakistan #India #France

I have been witness in early 2020 of Donald Trump saying repeatedly that: "CORONAVIRUS" was "THE NEW DEMOCRATS HOAX" It was about a few weeks before #global #lockdown #neofascism #fascism #technique #strategy #politics #politicalscience #agnotology #disinformation #propaganda

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:iepyfmc7yhwwgbgeu4vc3vcx/post/3mewxymo7ns2t

I think it is important you should underline first: their technique is based on deception, like most of their technique #agnotology Then only debunk this On the last 10,000 claims by #climatedeniers ... honestly, how many honest claims were done ? ZERO ? I think so en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnotol...

Agnotology - Wikipedia

It's done: here we are The USA are lying on governmental sites about the human origins of climate change #climatechange #climatedenial #disinformation #agnotology #neofascism #AMERICANFREESPEECHEIL !

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:mgsd4sw4nfxjbrhxeecohrxa/post/3m7iwb25ybs25

Writing and speaking can be used/mistreated/instumentalised/weaponised "not to be believed but to be obeyed, and to compel obedience newspapers, news, proceed by redundancy, in that they tell us what we ‘must’ think, retain, expect, etc. language is neither informational nor communicational. It is not the communication of information but something quite different: the transmission of order-words, either from one statement to another or within each statement, insofar as each statement accomplishes an act and the act is accomplished in the statement.”

― Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari, in "A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia" @ben

#criticalTheory #communication #media #knowledge #publicOpinion #epistemology #agnotology #rationalism #reason #truth #wordsMatter #semiotics #Deleuze #Guattari #Capitalism #quote #quotes #FrenchTheory #subjugate

“Language is not made to be believed but to be obeyed, and to compel obedience newspapers, news, proceed by redundancy, in that they tell us what we ‘must’ think, retain, expect, etc. language is neither informational nor communicational. It is not the communication of information but something quite different: the transmission of order-words, either from one statement to another or within each statement, insofar as each statement accomplishes an act and the act is accomplished in the statement.”

― Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari, in "A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia"

#criticalTheory #communication #media #knowledge #publicOpinion #epistemology #agnotology #rationalism #reason #truth #wordsMatter #semiotics #Deleuze #Guattari #Capitalism #quote #quotes #FrenchTheory

"To say something factually correct is already to have an #opinion on what to do with it."

Lauréline #Fontaine: "In a society of law built since the end of the Middle Ages around the protection of trade and exchange, truth has progressively acquired the status of a social necessity: it excludes uncertainty and produces the trust necessary for the maintenance and development of exchanges."

"The category of truth in the social space is not - in fact - the object of a monopoly (including in a scientific community tightly bound around certain protocols intended to produce it): the category of #truth is a very liberal practice, or even neo-liberal to use a paradigm of analysis that has become commonplace today. It is the object of a form of permanent competition, depending on the means available to some and others to appropriate it or reveal it."

fr https://www.ledroitdelafontaine.fr/entretien-sur-la-verite-en-democratie/

#communication #media #knowledge #publicOpinion #epistemology #agnotology #rationalism #reason #intelligence #truth #wordsMatter #democracy

This essay calls "for a radical shift in language from narratives that obscure violence to those affirming Palestinian presence, history, and sovereignty."

by Abdalrahman Kittana: https://al-shabaka.org/commentaries/gaza-uninhabitable-challenging-colonial-frames-of-erasure/

@palestine @geography

#struggles #agency #decolonial #dignity #resistance #survival #habitability #unliveable #humanitarian #necropolitics #geography #agnotology #collapse #demolition #reconstruction #colonialConvergence #TelAviv #Gaza #Israel #Palestine #racism #coloniality #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #Zionism #colonialism #connivance #complicity #entanglement #historyOfIdeas #landManagement #BritishEmpire #BritishRule #pineTrees #ongoingNakba #genocide #ethnicCleansing

This essay calls "for a radical shift in language from narratives that obscure violence to those affirming Palestinian presence, history, and sovereignty."

by Abdalrahman Kittana: https://al-shabaka.org/commentaries/gaza-uninhabitable-challenging-colonial-frames-of-erasure/

@palestine @geography

#struggles #agency #decolonial #dignity #resistance #survival #habitability #unliveable #humanitarian #necropolitics #geography #agnotology #collapse #demolition #reconstruction #colonialConvergence #TelAviv #Gaza #Israel #Palestine #racism #coloniality #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #Zionism #colonialism #connivance #complicity #entanglement #historyOfIdeas #landManagement #BritishEmpire #BritishRule #pineTrees #ongoingNakba #genocide #ethnicCleansing

This essay calls "for a radical shift in language from narratives that obscure violence to those affirming Palestinian presence, history, and sovereignty."

by Abdalrahman Kittana: https://al-shabaka.org/commentaries/gaza-uninhabitable-challenging-colonial-frames-of-erasure/

@palestine @geography

#struggles #agency #decolonial #dignity #resistance #survival #habitability #unliveable #humanitarian #necropolitics #geography #agnotology #collapse #demolition #reconstruction #colonialConvergence #TelAviv #Gaza #Israel #Palestine #racism #coloniality #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #Zionism #colonialism #connivance #complicity #entanglement #historyOfIdeas #landManagement #BritishEmpire #BritishRule #pineTrees #ongoingNakba #genocide #ethnicCleansing

This essay calls "for a radical shift in language from narratives that obscure violence to those affirming Palestinian presence, history, and sovereignty."

by Abdalrahman Kittana: https://al-shabaka.org/commentaries/gaza-uninhabitable-challenging-colonial-frames-of-erasure/

@palestine @geography

#struggles #agency #decolonial #dignity #resistance #survival #habitability #unliveable #humanitarian #necropolitics #geography #agnotology #collapse #demolition #reconstruction #colonialConvergence #TelAviv #Gaza #Israel #Palestine #racism #coloniality #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #Zionism #colonialism #connivance #complicity #entanglement #historyOfIdeas #landManagement #BritishEmpire #BritishRule #pineTrees #ongoingNakba #genocide #ethnicCleansing

This essay calls "for a radical shift in language from narratives that obscure violence to those affirming Palestinian presence, history, and sovereignty."

by Abdalrahman Kittana: https://al-shabaka.org/commentaries/gaza-uninhabitable-challenging-colonial-frames-of-erasure/

@palestine @geography

#struggles #agency #decolonial #dignity #resistance #survival #habitability #unliveable #humanitarian #necropolitics #geography #agnotology #collapse #demolition #reconstruction #colonialConvergence #TelAviv #Gaza #Israel #Palestine #racism #coloniality #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #Zionism #colonialism #connivance #complicity #entanglement #historyOfIdeas #landManagement #BritishEmpire #BritishRule #pineTrees #ongoingNakba #genocide #ethnicCleansing

🟢 Les beaux jours de l'ignorance

La fabrique de l'ignorance tournerait-elle à nouveau à plein régime avec Trump ? Nous avons demandé au spécialiste de l’agnotologie Robert Proctor ce qu’il en pensait

https://themeta.news/robert-proctor/

#VeilleESR #bigtobacco #agnotology

Said Robert Proctor: “If you don’t like the science that’s out there, create some of your own. And then claim ‘we need more research.’ And then label your opposition as a bunch of close-minded fanatics.”

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/industry-weaponizing-science-agenda/

#history #learning #learn #sociology #reputation #truth #agnotology #historyOfScience #intelligence #ignorance #USPol #science #knowledge #politics #publicOpinion #mediaStudies #commOdon

Not sure what I should understand: You claim that Europeans are well informed? If that's your claim I don't agree Even if Europe is at the lead of #climatechange policies implementation... all the #climatedisinformation techniques ( #disinformation #agnotology ) lies are well at play in Europe

La science COUPABLE à @lepoint.fr Mais PAS se vautrer dans le mensonge obscene et jubilatoire, but du jeu de la #disinformation #agnotology Briser le débat public, empecher la discussion, assenner le doute et le mensonge #fascisme #extremedroite #danger #democracie www.letemps.ch/monde/chaine...

La chaîne Fox News rattrapée p...

Germany’s main parties each have a state-funded political foundation. Boasting thousands of employees, they have enforced a collective silence on the genocide in Gaza out of obedience to German foreign policy

Ali Nobil Ahmad: https://jacobin.com/2024/11/germany-stiftungen-genocide-gaza-censorship

#publicDebate #supremacy #supremacism #Netanyahu #Germany #totalitarianism #media #agnotology #beliefs #believe #Baerbock #collaboration #censorship #conflation #longRead #confusion #antisemitism #politics #guilt #recycling #manipulation #coOpting #fragility #crackdown #freeSpeech #nationalism #StandWithIsrael #racism #immigration #EuropeIsrael #IHRA #parties #democracy #FDP #SPD #CDU #DieGrünen #GreenParty #Bundestag #DEPol #GermanPolitics

Germany’s main parties each have a state-funded political foundation. Boasting thousands of employees, they have enforced a collective silence on the genocide in Gaza out of obedience to German foreign policy

Ali Nobil Ahmad: https://jacobin.com/2024/11/germany-stiftungen-genocide-gaza-censorship

#publicDebate #supremacy #supremacism #Netanyahu #Germany #totalitarianism #media #agnotology #beliefs #believe #Baerbock #collaboration #censorship #conflation #longRead #confusion #antisemitism #politics #guilt #recycling #manipulation #coOpting #fragility #crackdown #freeSpeech #nationalism #StandWithIsrael #racism #immigration #EuropeIsrael #IHRA #parties #democracy #FDP #SPD #CDU #DieGrünen #GreenParty #Bundestag #DEPol #GermanPolitics

Germany’s main parties each have a state-funded political foundation. Boasting thousands of employees, they have enforced a collective silence on the genocide in Gaza out of obedience to German foreign policy

Ali Nobil Ahmad: https://jacobin.com/2024/11/germany-stiftungen-genocide-gaza-censorship

#publicDebate #supremacy #supremacism #Netanyahu #Germany #totalitarianism #media #agnotology #beliefs #believe #Baerbock #collaboration #censorship #conflation #longRead #confusion #antisemitism #politics #guilt #recycling #manipulation #coOpting #fragility #crackdown #freeSpeech #nationalism #StandWithIsrael #racism #immigration #EuropeIsrael #IHRA #parties #democracy #FDP #SPD #CDU #DieGrünen #GreenParty #Bundestag #DEPol #GermanPolitics

Germany’s main parties each have a state-funded political foundation. Boasting thousands of employees, they have enforced a collective silence on the genocide in Gaza out of obedience to German foreign policy

Ali Nobil Ahmad: https://jacobin.com/2024/11/germany-stiftungen-genocide-gaza-censorship

#publicDebate #supremacy #supremacism #Netanyahu #Germany #totalitarianism #media #agnotology #beliefs #believe #Baerbock #collaboration #censorship #conflation #longRead #confusion #antisemitism #politics #guilt #recycling #manipulation #coOpting #fragility #crackdown #freeSpeech #nationalism #StandWithIsrael #racism #immigration #EuropeIsrael #IHRA #parties #democracy #FDP #SPD #CDU #DieGrünen #GreenParty #Bundestag #DEPol #GermanPolitics

Germany’s main parties each have a state-funded political foundation. Boasting thousands of employees, they have enforced a collective silence on the genocide in Gaza out of obedience to German foreign policy

Ali Nobil Ahmad: https://jacobin.com/2024/11/germany-stiftungen-genocide-gaza-censorship

#publicDebate #supremacy #supremacism #Netanyahu #Germany #totalitarianism #media #agnotology #beliefs #believe #Baerbock #collaboration #censorship #conflation #longRead #confusion #antisemitism #politics #guilt #recycling #manipulation #coOpting #fragility #crackdown #freeSpeech #nationalism #StandWithIsrael #racism #immigration #EuropeIsrael #IHRA #parties #democracy #FDP #SPD #CDU #DieGrünen #GreenParty #Bundestag #DEPol #GermanPolitics

@knutson_brain @FrankPasquale

Maybe, but obviously in some country at least HALF the HOMO SAPIENS population is addicted to living being repeating Goebbels inspired CareLess speech

ask #maga and #trump and #putin

I suggest that
#llm #llms #stochasticparrots #machinelearning #ML #AI #artificialintelligence are MUCH MORE apt at saying true things than #trump or #putin and #afd and #RassemblementNationalRN and #milei and #bolsonaro and #stevebannon and #robertmercer and #foxnews and #nigelfarage and #borisjonhson and #ultraright and #rupertmurdoch and #farright and all their propagandists

ouch I forgot #professionaldisinformers like #climatedeniers and #bigoil propaganda cf. #agnotology and the science of programmed ignorance and doubt

That's what I think I observe for now

@knutson_brain @FrankPasquale

Maybe, but obviously in some country at least HALF the HOMO SAPIENS population is addicted to living being repeating Goebbels inspired CareLess speech

ask #maga and #trump and #putin

I suggest that
#llm #llms #stochasticparrots #machinelearning #ML #AI #artificialintelligence are MUCH MORE apt at saying true things than #trump or #putin and #afd and #RassemblementNationalRN and #milei and #bolsonaro and #stevebannon and #robertmercer and #foxnews and #nigelfarage and #borisjonhson and #ultraright and #rupertmurdoch and #farright and all their propagandists

ouch I forgot #professionaldisinformers like #climatedeniers and #bigoil propaganda cf. #agnotology and the science of programmed ignorance and doubt

That's what I think I observe for now

@knutson_brain @FrankPasquale

Maybe, but obviously in some country at least HALF the HOMO SAPIENS population is addicted to living being repeating Goebbels inspired CareLess speech

ask #maga and #trump and #putin

I suggest that
#llm #llms #stochasticparrots #machinelearning #ML #AI #artificialintelligence are MUCH MORE apt at saying true things than #trump or #putin and #afd and #RassemblementNationalRN and #milei and #bolsonaro and #stevebannon and #robertmercer and #foxnews and #nigelfarage and #borisjonhson and #ultraright and #rupertmurdoch and #farright and all their propagandists

ouch I forgot #professionaldisinformers like #climatedeniers and #bigoil propaganda cf. #agnotology and the science of programmed ignorance and doubt

That's what I think I observe for now

@knutson_brain @FrankPasquale

Maybe, but obviously in some country at least HALF the HOMO SAPIENS population is addicted to living being repeating Goebbels inspired CareLess speech

ask #maga and #trump and #putin

I suggest that
#llm #llms #stochasticparrots #machinelearning #ML #AI #artificialintelligence are MUCH MORE apt at saying true things than #trump or #putin and #afd and #RassemblementNationalRN and #milei and #bolsonaro and #stevebannon and #robertmercer and #foxnews and #nigelfarage and #borisjonhson and #ultraright and #rupertmurdoch and #farright and all their propagandists

ouch I forgot #professionaldisinformers like #climatedeniers and #bigoil propaganda cf. #agnotology and the science of programmed ignorance and doubt

That's what I think I observe for now

@knutson_brain @FrankPasquale

Maybe, but obviously in some country at least HALF the HOMO SAPIENS population is addicted to living being repeating Goebbels inspired CareLess speech

ask #maga and #trump and #putin

I suggest that
#llm #llms #stochasticparrots #machinelearning #ML #AI #artificialintelligence are MUCH MORE apt at saying true things than #trump or #putin and #afd and #RassemblementNationalRN and #milei and #bolsonaro and #stevebannon and #robertmercer and #foxnews and #nigelfarage and #borisjonhson and #ultraright and #rupertmurdoch and #farright and all their propagandists

ouch I forgot #professionaldisinformers like #climatedeniers and #bigoil propaganda cf. #agnotology and the science of programmed ignorance and doubt

That's what I think I observe for now

Voor het eerst in jaren heb ik weer eens geblogged. Over Mywheels en waarom ze abonnees straffen en waarom ik na 3 dagen al weer spijt heb van mijn betaald abonnement.

Ik moet nog even verder klooien met wordpress, maar dit werkt sowieso: https://agnotology.eu/2024/06/ik-begrijp-mywheels-niet-zo-goed-en-dat-zit-me-dwars/

#mywheels #enshitification #agnotologie #agnotology

"Tectonic shifts in Israeli broadcasting have played a key role in shaping the country’s nationalist and militaristic discourse, with Oct. 7 marking their apex."

Eyal Lurie-Pardes: https://www.972mag.com/israeli-tv-hasbara-media-gaza/ @israel

#October7 #JewishState #patriotism #nationalism #sociology #reputation #agnotology #TV #journalists #Israeli #media #investigations #journalism #professionalism #propaganda #manipulation #news #media #israelGaza #GazaWar #israelWars #warOnGaza #israelGazaWar #bias #newspapers #information #coverage #Hasbara #violence #stateViolence #war #WestBank #Gaza #israelPalestine #972mag #press #occupation #settlements #IDF #israelApartheid

#CfP for the #panel "#Agnotology in #Literature, #Culture, and the #Arts", which will be held at the 2025 MLA Annual Convention in New Orleans from 9 to 12 January, 2025 (#MLAnews).

🗓️Deadline for Abstracts: March 23, 2024

📌Further Information:
https://avldigital.de/de/vernetzen/details/callforpapers/agnotology-in-literature-culture-and-the-arts-mla/ #fidavlnews @litstudies @germanistik @italianstudies #LiteratureCulture #LiteratureArts

"Military reporters at Israel’s major news outlets consistently neglect to investigate the army and its conduct. October 7 is their failure too."

"Even high-ranking Israeli military officers seem to be aware of the difference between local and foreign press. A month ago, a few such officers approached an American outlet, rather than an Israeli one, to share their concerns about the incompatibility of the goals of the ground operation in Gaza: dismantling Hamas and freeing all of the Israeli hostages."

https://www.972mag.com/israeli-journalists-pr-army-october-7/ @israel @idf

#patriotism #nationalism #sociology #reputation #truth #agnotology #Haaretz #journalists #Israeli #media #army #military #investigations #journalism #professionalism #propaganda #manipulation #news #media #israelGaza #GazaWar #israelWars #warOnGaza #israelGazaWar #bias #newspapers #information #coverage #Hasbara #violence #stateViolence #war #WestBank #Gaza #israelPalestine #Jerusalem #972mag #press #IDF #occupation #settlements #israelApartheid

The masses' flight from reality is a condemnation of the world in which they are forced to live. […] The main disadvantage of reality is that it is not logical, coherent or organised.
~ Hannah Arendt, in "Totalitarianism"

@sociology @socialpsych

#Arendt #quotes #truth #postFactual #complotism #reality #Russia #Putin #supremacism #Netanyahu #nazism #Germany #totalitarianism #media #antisemitism #HannahArendt #agnotology #Trumpism #fragility #believe

#TESCREAL, coined by Timnit Gebru and Émile Torres, stands for #Transhumanism, #Extropianism, Singularitarianism, Cosmism, #Rationalism, Effective Altruism, and #Longtermism. For a breakdown of each term, check out this article https://washingtonspectator.org/understanding-tescreal-silicon-valleys-rightward-turn/
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#AIEthics #generativeAI #epistemology #patriarchy #whiteness #agnotology #intelligence #OpenAI #SamAltman #SiliconValley #innovation @sociology @ethics

#Rationalism is a philosophical position or view that #reason is the source of knowledge.

Vernon J. #Bourke wrote that rationalism is defined as a methodology or a theory "in which the criterion of #truth is not sensory but intellectual and deductive."
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#quotes #philosophy #epistemology #patriarchy #whiteness #agnotology #historyOfScience #intelligence #factChecking #knowledge #publicOpinion #learning #sociology #wordsMatter #hashtags @psychology #TESCREAL

Make it true:
Hannah #Arendt observed that men gaining #power in Germany did not lie because they believed what they were saying, or even because they expected YOU to believe it. They were lying to state out what had to become #true in order to justify what they intended to do.
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#communism #nazism #postFactual #war #Russia #performance #FRPol #Macron #politics #communication #propaganda #commOdon #media #truth #agnotology

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced #Nazi or the convinced #Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the #reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist.”
― Hannah Arendt, "The Origins of Totalitarianism"
#communism #nazism #postFactual #totalitarianism #war #propaganda #Russia #quotes #commOdon #truth #agnotology #history 🧶

Looks like Exxon-Mobil was very knowledgeable about climate change. Years and years ago. High prescience score, Lowest of the Low ethics score. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abk0063 #Agnotology #civicintelligence #civicignorance

#BIGTECH for #CLIMATECRISIS Advocating inaction: a historical analysis of the Global Climate Coalition https://cssn.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/GCC-Paper.pdf #agnotology #civicIntelligence