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How do we build trust in a post-truth world?
Artists probe misinformation, propaganda, and fractured realities to question how truth circulates today.
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The Reality-Based Community
A critique of postmodern suspicion and “post-truth” discourse argues that endlessly problematizing documentary’s access to the real now abets cynicism and relativism, eroding the shared ground required for political and ethical action. Against “ecstatic truth,” essayistic reflexivity, and boundary-blurring orthodoxies, a rehabilitated observational cinema—situated, partial, and formally structured—reclaims indexical facticity as a reparative practice of attention and care for a fragile common world.
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5,000 Feet
High-gloss, Hollywood-coded production is mobilized against narrative coherence, using loops, doubles, and obscurities to produce a postmodern epistemic crisis in which truth and authorial control dissolve into “productive disorientation.”
By staging drone warfare through fractured, Joyce-like exposition and surreal disruptions, the work critiques the aestheticization and bureaucratization of contemporary violence, forcing an anxious, attentive spectatorship that yields ethical insight without cathartic closure.
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Book of Veles 44 - Bojan
A self-reflexive critique of post-truth media, the work weaponizes photorealistic simulation to collapse the boundary between documentary evidence and fabricated narrative, implicating photojournalistic authority in the same attention economy that sustains disinformation. By paralleling Veles’s contemporary clickbait industry with the forged pagan manuscript, it frames authenticity as a culturally produced belief-system—where nationalism, faith, and technological image-making converge to manufacture reality.
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Images Are Masks
Images operate as masks within an algorithmic propaganda ecology where context is stripped, truth is manufactured through virality, and the state’s visual regime merges nationalism, surveillance, and censorship to rewrite history while punishing dissent. Against the collapse of verification and the commodification of journalism, the text proposes glitch, opacity, and coded metaphor as aesthetic-political tactics that reintroduce doubt, expose the constructedness of “truth,” and contest the weaponization of representation.
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