Lyotard and Netflix's Social Dilemma: A Post-structuralist Response [RE-UPLOAD]

Netflix's documentary The Social Dilemma offers a grave picture of our post-truth landscape, but what is this 'truth' that we have discarded, and can we reclaim it? Through the writings of Jean-Francois Lyotard, we take on social media, and discover that under the postmodern condition, all news is fake, and all facts alternative.

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Works referenced:
Jean-Francois Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge
Jean-Francois Lyotard, The Differend, Phrases in Dispute
Jean-Francois Lyotard, Just Gaming

Check out my friend's jazzy take on alternative facts for an additional musical accompaniment to this video!    • Alternative Facts - FUNKY Big Band Or...  

Credit to the Kino Library for archival footage.


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