How can it say that there was no goal to cheat someone when he tried to ‘hypnotize’ readers? After all, you have changed Wikipedia pages, including those of Bifo, the inserting of references to Jianwei Xun.
“The deception was a tool, not the end. I certainly cannot deny that I said that a certain Jianwei Xun was a thinker of Hong Kong, but it was not necessary to set up all this theater to show that we – all in the first place – have enormous problems, that journalists do not have the time to check the face of everything and that and that and that and that Fake news travel with an impressive speed. All this was already clear and sufficiently tragic. For me it was important to use that lie for a higher goal, which shows that the tendency to become acryptically welcome information It is not exclusive of the ‘population manipulated by populists’ But it concerns everyone, we who also feel smarter, progressive, more smart. And that, above all, if we put our defatism aside, we can build the trumpian buildings just as strong, able to relocate the imagination of many people.
What I find most important is how the reactions to the revelation of the experiment ultimately exactly the Hypnocratic mechanisms described in the book. When some intellectuals have furious, they did not respond to a deception of the content, but to the crack that is produced on the credibility system that supports their social role. The experiment easily lifted the veilAnd what has emerged is our own vulnerability to suggestion, for the aura, to the mechanism of the attribution of value “.
We can place Hypnocracy In the evolution of the concept of post-truth?
“Yes. Hypnocracy is in the post-truth post: A time when not only the truth has become negotiable, but the same negotiation has become a show, and those who dominate it no longer have to lie, but only to generate other versions. The truth is not denied, but it does not make it relevantImmersed by infinite equivalent stories, between a Bombardino crocodilo and a goal from Lamine Yamal. In that sense, Hypnocracy does not want to limit itself to denouncing this condition, but especially planning to export performance: to place the reader for his mechanism of value allocation, who asks him to ask him Think about what he considers ‘authoritative’, ‘deep’, ‘worthy trust’. In this way it can become a powerful pedagogical tool, not because it offers answers, but because it is empty. It can help to form a generation that can recognize how your gullibility works. And this is today for me The support point of critical thinking“.
Have you found generation differences in the way to interpret the project?
‘Younger studentsIn particular the one with which Maura and I Gancitano We showed dialogue to the Ied van Rome showed one Much more direct and intuitive understanding of the experiment. For generations grew up in a digitally mediated environment, the idea of liquid identity and distributed car (tendential) is less problematic. This Generation difference reflectsin my opinion, different views on authenticity and truth: For those who grew up in the pre-digital era, the distinction between real and not really very clear; For younger generations, navigation between several realities and liquid identities is the practice “.
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