We are used to thinking of what we call the news as a tool that can help us to vanquish ignorance. But what it continuously – albeit slyly – does is encourage us to forget entirely what we actually feel in relation to certain events and crucially why that is so important.
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“We are used to thinking of what we call the news as a tool that can help us to vanquish ignorance: we will, thanks to its updates, properly understand what is going on and where importance lies. But if we examine the role of this phenomenon with greater scepticism, we may find that it is as responsible for blinding us to ourselves as for introducing us to the complexities of so-called reality…”
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Produced in collaboration with:
Jesse Collett
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Title animation produced in collaboration with
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