Παρασκευή 10/1 στις 21.00

Σινεμά Επιστημονικής Φαντασίας

Παρουσίαση:
Η γνώση ως προϋπόθεση της ελευθερίας στο La Planète Sauvage (Ο άγριος πλανήτης, 1973) του René Laloux.

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• Les Escargots (1965) (youtube)
• La Planète Sauvage (1973) (archive.org)

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There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge’.

Isaac Asimov – “A Cult of Ignorance” (Newsweek, 21/1/1980) (link)

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We’ve arranged a society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces. Who is running the science and technology in a democracy if the people don’t know anything about it?

Science is more than a body of knowledge, it’s a way of thinking. A way of skeptically interrogating the universe with a fine understanding of human fallibility. If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then we’re up for grabs for the next charlatan, political or religious, who comes ambling along.

Carl Sagan’s last interview (Charlie Rose show, PBS, 27/05/1996) – (youtube)