{"id":513,"date":"2017-02-27T15:11:26","date_gmt":"2017-02-27T14:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/inframethodology.cbs.dk\/?p=513"},"modified":"2017-02-27T15:12:24","modified_gmt":"2017-02-27T14:12:24","slug":"how-to-know-things-lecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inframethodology.cbs.dk\/?p=513","title":{"rendered":"How to Know Things (Lecture)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Wednesday 29 March 2017, 17:10 &#8211; 18:50, Solbjerg Plads, SP213<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"row\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\u00a0Almost a century ago, the poet Ezra Pound had defined literature simply as &#8220;news that STAYS news&#8221;. Today, we seem starved for facts that stay facts. Indeed, our age has been called &#8220;the post-truth era&#8221;. We are awash, it is said, in\u00a0&#8220;fake news&#8221; and &#8220;alternative facts&#8221;. How are we to know anything at all?<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The library has always been there to help us sort the true from the false, the truly new from the fake innovation. Knowing something requires you to\u00a0find your footing in &#8220;the literature&#8221;, the push and pull of discourse. Being knowledge-<em>able<\/em> (able-to-know), means being able to make up your mind, speak your mind, and write it down. This lecture will show you how a university education can help you get good at these things.<\/p>\n<p>I will offer a number of practical strategies for informing yourself about the current state of the world. Some of these simply involve building a certain habit of mind&#8211;cultivating a healthy skepticism and adopting a critical posture. But some of them also require an understanding of the sources of information and developing a technical facility with databases.\u00a0These days, perhaps more than ever, you will not regret knowing how to use your library.<\/p>\n<p>This lecture is open to all CBS students and faculty. Sign up by <a href=\"http:\/\/cbs.libcal.com\/event\/3191635\" target=\"_blank\">clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday 29 March 2017, 17:10 &#8211; 18:50, Solbjerg Plads, SP213 \u00a0Almost a century ago, the poet Ezra Pound had defined literature simply as &#8220;news that STAYS news&#8221;. Today, we seem starved for facts that stay facts. Indeed, our age has been called &#8220;the post-truth era&#8221;. We are awash, it is said, in\u00a0&#8220;fake news&#8221; and &#8220;alternative &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/inframethodology.cbs.dk\/?p=513\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How to Know Things (Lecture)<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inframethodology.cbs.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inframethodology.cbs.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inframethodology.cbs.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inframethodology.cbs.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inframethodology.cbs.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=513"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inframethodology.cbs.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":515,"href":"https:\/\/inframethodology.cbs.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513\/revisions\/515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inframethodology.cbs.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inframethodology.cbs.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inframethodology.cbs.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}