<div style="color:black;font: 10pt Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">a terrifically written contribution, dai.
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<div><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">with warmth and oomph--howard</span><br>
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<font face="arial, helvetica"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">From: Dai Griffiths <dai.griffiths.1@gmail.com></span></font><br>
<font face="arial, helvetica"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">To: fis <fis@listas.unizar.es></span></font><br>
<font face="arial, helvetica"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Sent: Tue, Jan 7, 2020 9:15 am</span></font><br>
<font face="arial, helvetica"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Subject: Re: [Fis] Fwd: Re: Brenner 2020 New Year Lecture</span></font><br>
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<div dir="ltr" style=""><font face="arial, helvetica"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">On 07/01/2020 12:42, Pedro C. Marijuán wrote:</span></font><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><font face="arial, helvetica"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">> Finally disinformation has IMO a peculiar form/structure, somehow </span></font><br clear="none"><font face="arial, helvetica"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">> different. It fits too well with some preconceived "partisan" views, </span></font><br clear="none"><font face="arial, helvetica"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">> it is addressed to raise visceral reactions, it contains no </span></font><br clear="none"><font face="arial, helvetica"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">> contrasting or balancing elements, it has no evident/credible </span></font><br clear="none"><font face="arial, helvetica"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">> "institutional" reference. It is a fake!</span></font><br clear="none"><font face="arial, helvetica"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">I suspect that disinformation may be more pervasive than you suggest.</span></font><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><font face="arial, helvetica"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Sitting in Mallorca airport as I type, most of the graphic and </span></font><br clear="none"><font face="arial, helvetica"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">linguistic material that I can see seems to me to have some kind of </span></font><br clear="none"><font face="arial, helvetica"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">disinformative character. The sign at the bar appears to be a personal </span></font><br clear="none"><font face="arial, helvetica"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">message, but is actually from a marketing department. The coffee offers </span></font><br clear="none"><font face="arial, helvetica"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">me a 'real Italian coffee experience', whatever that may be. The water </span></font><br clear="none"><font face="arial, helvetica"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">bottles want to convince me that their contents are distinguishable. The </span></font><br clear="none"><font face="arial, helvetica"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">corporation that runs the pastry store wants to tell me that it is a </span></font><br clear="none"><font face="arial, helvetica"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">family business estabilshed in 1854 rather than a purchased brand.</span></font><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><font face="arial, helvetica"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Perhaps it is the informative interactions which are somehow different?</span></font><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><font face="arial, helvetica"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">More generally I wonder if disinformation is not at the heart of </span></font><br clear="none"><font face="arial, helvetica"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">artistic expression. A Rembrandt portrait convinces us that we are </span></font><br clear="none"><font face="arial, helvetica"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">looking at a person, even when we know that we are looking at the </span></font><br clear="none"><font face="arial, helvetica"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">astonishing manipulation of paint. More generally, a metaphor sees one </span></font><br clear="none"><font face="arial, helvetica"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">thing in terms of another. But the mapping is not complete or exact. To </span></font><br clear="none"><font face="arial, helvetica"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">the degree that arrows cannot be constructed of desire (the William </span></font><br clear="none"><font face="arial, helvetica"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Blake exhibition is fresh in my memory), and nor could Princess Diana </span></font><br clear="none"><font face="arial, helvetica"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">have been mistaken for an English Rose, is the metaphor itself a mix of </span></font><br clear="none"><font face="arial, helvetica"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">information and disinformation? How could we calibrate or describe such </span></font><br clear="none"><font face="arial, helvetica"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">a mix?</span></font><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><font face="arial, helvetica"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Best</span></font><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><font face="arial, helvetica"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Dai</span></font><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><font face="arial, helvetica"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">_______________________________________________</span></font><br clear="none"><font face="arial, helvetica"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Fis mailing list</span></font><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:Fis@listas.unizar.es" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="mailto:Fis@listas.unizar.es" style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 10pt;">Fis@listas.unizar.es</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="http://listas.unizar.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fis" style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 10pt;">http://listas.unizar.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fis</a><br clear="none"><font face="arial, helvetica"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">----------</span></font><br clear="none"><font face="arial, helvetica"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">INFORMACIN SOBRE PROTECCIN DE DATOS DE CARCTER PERSONAL</span></font><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><font face="arial, helvetica"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Ud. recibe este correo por pertenecer a una lista de correo gestionada por la Universidad de Zaragoza.</span></font><br clear="none"><font face="arial, helvetica"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Puede encontrar toda la informacin sobre como tratamos sus datos en el siguiente enlace: </span></font><a shape="rect" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://sicuz.unizar.es/informacion-sobre-proteccion-de-datos-de-caracter-personal-en-listas" style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 10pt;">https://sicuz.unizar.es/informacion-sobre-proteccion-de-datos-de-caracter-personal-en-listas</a><br clear="none"><font face="arial, helvetica"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Recuerde que si est suscrito a una lista voluntaria Ud. puede darse de baja desde la propia aplicacin en el momento en que lo desee.</span></font>
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<div class="yqt4735202654" id="yqtfd44422" style=""><font face="arial, helvetica"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind From The Big Bang to the 21st Century ("reassuring and sobering"-The New Yorker),</span></font></div>
<div class="yqt4735202654" id="yqtfd44422" style=""><font face="arial, helvetica"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">The Genius of the Beast: A Radical Re-Vision of Capitalism ("A tremendously enjoyable book." James Fallows, National Correspondent, The Atlantic), </span></font></div>
<div class="yqt4735202654" id="yqtfd44422" style=""><font face="arial, helvetica"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">The God Problem: How A Godless Cosmos Creates ("Bloom's argument will rock your world." Barbara Ehrenreich),</span></font></div>
<div class="yqt4735202654" id="yqtfd44422" style=""><font face="arial, helvetica"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">How I Accidentally Started the Sixties (“Wow! Whew! Wild! Wonderful!” Timothy Leary),</span></font></div>
<div class="yqt4735202654" id="yqtfd44422" style=""><font face="arial, helvetica"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">The Mohammed Code (“A terrifying book…the best book I’ve read on Islam.” David Swindle, PJ Media), and</span></font></div>
<div class="yqt4735202654" id="yqtfd44422" style=""><font face="arial, helvetica"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">Einstein, Michael Jackson & Me: a Search for Soul in the Power Pits of Rock & Roll ("Amazing. The writing is revelatory." Freddy DeMann, manager of Michael Jackson and Madonna).</span></font></div>
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<div class="yqt4735202654" id="yqtfd44422" style=""><font face="arial, helvetica"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">Former Visiting Scholar, Graduate Psychology Department, New York University, Former Core Faculty Member, The Graduate Institute; Kepler Space Institute Senior Scholar .</span></font></div>
<div class="yqt4735202654" id="yqtfd44422" style=""><font face="arial, helvetica"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">Founder: International Paleopsychology Project. Founder, Space Development Steering Committee. Member Of Board Of Governors, National Space Society. Founding Board Member: Epic of Evolution Society. Founding Board Member, The Darwin Project,.</span></font></div>
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