Approaching The Infopocalypse

Image credit: Jonathan Zawada for Noēma Magazine. Essay by Nathan Gardels. Noēma – June 23, 2023.

The digital media ecosystem disempowers the public sphere.

Without institutions and practices that can establish and preserve the credibility of information, there is no solid ground for democratic discourse. What we will see instead is an “arms race of ploy and counterploy” in which the whole notion of objectivity is a casualty of the battle of truths, as Daniel Dennett, the philosopher of consciousness, has put it. […]

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