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How academic culture gives us permission not to know

July 26, 2018August 20, 2018 / Ian Pollock / Leave a comment

Every way of knowing is also a way of not knowing. Privileging one point of view, or one form of evidence, requires the erasure of other ways of perceiving and understanding the world. What do our cultures give us permission not to know? By what means are we permitted to blinker ourselves? And do our cultures ever encourage us to see those truths again?

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