theorywatch

“Secrecy” is premiering at Sundance this month, and documentary director (and Harvard professor) Peter Galison has kindly made his 2004 paper on “Removing Knowledge” from Critical Inquiry available as a download from the film’s website. (Right next to the trailer!) Haven’t seen the film, but love Galison’s unfailingly elegant style on full display here in his paper (”Epistemology asks how knowledge can be uncovered and secured. Antiepistemology asks how knowledge can be covered and obscured.”) en route to a “classified theory of knowledge.”

Galison famously studied “how experiments end” in the rarefied world of micro-physics, but the so-called “classified universe” may be much harder to penetrate — even for someone like him, let alone someone like me. Certainly some new dimensions of relevance to ponder here!

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