Ignorance Unmasked
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Ignorance Unmasked

Essays in the New Science of Agnotology

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Ignorance Unmasked

Essays in the New Science of Agnotology

About this book

We live in an age of ignorance. This book offers a guide to how we got hereā€”and how we might escape.

  From obfuscations of climate science to the myriad deceptions inhering in language, Ignorance Unmasked explores how agnotologyā€”the study of ignoranceā€”can help us better grasp: Why don't we know what we don't know? What are the obstacles to knowledge, and how might those be overcome?

  Ignorance has countless agents and authors; it gets deliberately manufactured and widely disseminated. In a provocative set of essays, this book engages climate change and public health, algorithmic amplification of misinformation, deep fakes and data obsolescence, the origins of free market fundamentalism and gun industry deceptions, along with the ignorance produced by military trauma, sugar and meat agnotology, environmental malfeasance, and the forgetting of the Nakba. It helps us better understand how and why knowledge gets erased, and how rectifying such ignorance can enlarge human liberties and planetary health.

  Contributors: Nadia Abu El-Haj, Daniel Akselrad, Erik M. Conway, John Donohue, Hany Farid, Benjamin Franta, Peter Galison, Jennifer Jacquet, Caroline A. Jones, Robert Lustig, Naomi Oreskes, Robert N. Proctor, Rosemary Sayigh, Londa Schiebinger, and Nanna Bonde Thylstrup

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Preface
  6. 1. Agnotology, Thirty Years in the Making
  7. 2. How the Most Important Fact of Global Warming Has Been Obscured
  8. 3. Preventing Unwanted Births Can Help Mitigate Climate Changeā€”While Enlarging Human Liberties
  9. 4. AI-Fueled Ignorance, Confusion, and Profit
  10. 5. On Data Loss and Disappearance in Digital Societies
  11. 6. Law against Knowledge: Anti-Epistemology
  12. 7. Why We Wrongly Imagine Adam Smith as a Free Market Fundamentalist
  13. 8. Gun-Lobby Agnotology: Degrading the Truth about Firearms
  14. 9. Gluttony and Sloth?: Personal Responsibility versus the True Cause of Obesity
  15. 10. How Big Meat Has Created and Legitimized Ignorance
  16. 11. On the Burial of the Palestinian Nakba
  17. 12. Euphemism in the Architecture and Language of Treblinka
  18. 13. Hiram Powers, Black Agnotology, and Segregated Art History
  19. 14. ā€œCivilianā€ Ignorance, American Militarism, and the Post-9/11 Wars
  20. Contributors
  21. Notes
  22. Index