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knowledge/truth

Submitted by ebock on Thu, 12/04/2008 - 7:05pm.

We ended class talking about whether or not documentary film was "honest" or the "most honest" medium of art. I couldn't help but think of Spivak's claim that we can't actually know anything (hope I didn't butcher that haha). Thinking of documentary film in that light, does that mean that we can't actually know if the documentary is entirely honest or does that mean maybe that nothing can be true because we can't fully know anything?

I've just been rolling this around in my mind since class and wondered if anyone had any thoughts.

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