Truth and Lies (Part 4) - Democracy as internet, democracy as ideal..

Here is a link to my last post in the series of post contributions, to the Or-bits.com TRUTH programme.  This time I am writing about 'democracy as internet, democracy as ideal'.  To read go to -http://www.or-bits.com/blog/

'Most of the time I can't get in', Woodblock print and drawing on paper, 2011

Truth or Lies (Part 3) | The problems with knowledge and information in an online era

Not all routes lead to home, Chongqing, 2011

Part 3 of 'Truth and Lies', my series of guest blogs for Or-bits.com programme, has been published.  To read the post 'The problems with knowledge and information in an online era, click here.

Truth and Lies (Part 2) - Certainty and Fallacy....

Part 2 of my series of blog posts, 'Truth and Lies' is now online on the or-bits.com blog.  This post explores ideas of certainty and fallacy in relation to physical and digital architectures.

To read click here.

Truth or Lies (Part 1)

My first blog post for Or-bits.com TRUTH programme was published last week.  It starts like this....

the ultimate knowledge = the honest knowledge = truth?

On a conscious and critical level, the notion that actual ‘truth’ exists, or is a worthwhile entity for which to search for in everyday postmodernist digital society, strikes me, at first, as a pointless exercise. What possible ‘truth’ is there within the endless streams of tweets, posts and sites that are so riddled with self-promotion, spin, and often masked authorship? How does ‘truth’ online relate to any considered ‘truth’ in physical space?

We ‘all’ know that the situation of living within postmodern digital society offers endless multiple speculations, criticisms, theories. There is no complete certainty, no evidence that can be ruled out entirely as a lie, and definitely no one way of living. The notion of ‘truth’ and its necessity for living is redundant, right? Or on the other hand, is the belief of ‘truth’ embedded so deeply in our cognitive mind set and behaviour – that we seek by way of discovering information, an attempt to reveal a ‘truth’?

We are educated in institutions that often advocate the importance of truth...... To read the rest of the piece follow this link - http://www.or-bits.com/blog/.

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or-bits.com is pleased to present TRUTH,

its new and fifth online programme.

Featuring works by:

ANGUS BRAITHWAITE / DAVID RAYMOND CONROY / ADELITA HUSNI-BEY

/ IOCOSE / M+M (Marc Weis and Martin De Mattia) / RICHARD SIDES

Plus forthcoming guest curated pages by:

GAIA TEDONE / CHRISTINE TAKENGNY & UTE PANNEDE

TRUTH programme will be accompanied by an ongoing series of blog contributions by:

Jennifer Steele (artist, researcher and lecturer) / Nathan Witt (artist) / and other bloggers joining along the way.

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