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Facticity: Its Rise, Fall, and Misplacement with Dr. Sandra Braman
Facticity: Its Rise, Fall, and Misplacement with Dr. Sandra Braman
Join us in person in room CAS 233 or via Zoom (register here). Dr. Sandra Braman, Scholar and Professor of Media & Information. John Locke's An Essay on Human Understanding (1690) introduced his concept of the fact and became the most important book of the 17th and 18th centuries after the Bible. As Tom Wolfe put it, the effects of the turn to reason in text were as powerful as "the introduction of electricity into machine technology." Facticity is the social formation that resulted across Western societies -- the social orientation around the fact, whether towards or away. This presentation will briefly […]
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