{"id":4746,"date":"2017-10-03T18:30:16","date_gmt":"2017-10-03T17:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/?p=4746"},"modified":"2021-09-03T09:26:27","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T08:26:27","slug":"is-post-modernism-to-blame-for-our-post-truth-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/is-post-modernism-to-blame-for-our-post-truth-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Post-modernism to Blame for Our Post-truth World?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Mark Currie\/ Alison Gibbons\/ James Ladyman\/ Hilary Lawson<!--more--><\/h3>\n<p>Listen to the podcast <span style=\"color: #3366ff\"><strong><a style=\"color: #3366ff\" href=\"https:\/\/richmedia.lse.ac.uk\/publiclecturesandevents\/20170902_1830_isPostModernismToBlame.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a><\/strong><\/span> or on <span style=\"color: #3366ff\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/w-ArpksIB_A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>YouTube<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>6.30 &#8211; 8pm | Monday 2 October 2017<br \/>\nSheikh Zayed Theatre, LSE<\/p>\n<p><strong>Speakers<\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sed.qmul.ac.uk\/staff\/curriem.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" class=\"broken_link\">Mark Currie<\/a><\/span>, Professor of Contemporary Literature, Queen Mary, University of London<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shu.ac.uk\/about-us\/our-people\/staff-profiles\/alison-gibbons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alison Gibbons<\/a><\/span>,\u00a0<span class=\"s1\">Reader in Contemporary Stylistics,\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Sheffield Hallam University<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bristol.ac.uk\/school-of-arts\/people\/james-a-ladyman\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" class=\"broken_link\">James Ladyman<\/a><\/span>, Professor of Philosophy, University of Bristol<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hilary_Lawson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hilary Lawson<\/a><\/span>, Director of the Institute of Art and Ideas<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chair<\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff\" href=\"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/shahidha-bari\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Shahidha Bari<\/a><\/span>, Fellow, The Forum; Senior Lecturer in Romanticism in the Department of English, Queen Mary, University of London<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Did Derrida make us do it? Is our current situation the inevitable outcome of the intellectual adventuring of the twentieth century that critiqued grand narratives and challenged absolute truths? Or should we call upon the critical scepticism of post-modernism and post-structuralism with renewed vigour, to better see through the smoke and mirrors of contemporary culture? We ask what the relationship is between facts, alternative facts, and fiction, and explore the precarious status of truth in the twenty-first century.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Currie\/ Alison Gibbons\/ James Ladyman\/ Hilary Lawson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1169,"featured_media":4070,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_expiration-date-status":"saved","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[]},"categories":[109],"tags":[40,19,89,71,20],"coauthors":[153],"class_list":["post-4746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcast","tag-epistemology","tag-ethics","tag-historyofphilosophy","tag-philosophyandliterature","tag-politicalphilosophy"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/files\/2017\/07\/2-Post-modernism.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6zUjQ-1ey","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4746"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15823,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4746\/revisions\/15823"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4746"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}