Speculative Facts

The book explores the relationship between speculation and fact-checking, featuring an email exchange between New York Times fact-checkers and responses from artists and writers. It questions the responsibility of expanding knowledge and speculating with fiction in times of democratized opinion and fake news.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 288 pages
Publication date: 31 August 2021
Publisher: Onomatopee

Two New York Times fact-checkers, Alex Carp and Jamie Fisher, engage in a multidisciplinary exploration of truth and fiction in a volume that bridges two seemingly contradictory paradigms of knowledge-seeking: speculation, which aims to transcend existing knowledge and structures, and fact, which strives for a robust consensus on which reality can be built. The book's foundation is an email exchange between Carp and Fisher, two fact-checkers from the New York Times Magazine, to which artists and writers respond through an initiative at the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht. The publication includes the original letters and workshop scripts, as well as additional texts by philosophers, journalists, writers, and artists, delving into the question of the responsibility required in times of democratized opinion and fake news when expanding knowledge and speculating with fiction.

Weight: 420g
Dimension: 155 x 212 x 22 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9789493148512