{"id":2058,"date":"2023-04-18T21:00:27","date_gmt":"2023-04-18T21:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cast.b-ap.net\/?p=2058"},"modified":"2025-11-25T01:36:51","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T01:36:51","slug":"keynote-lecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/cast\/2023\/04\/18\/keynote-lecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Keynote Lecture @ Torrance Festival of Ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"2058\" class=\"elementor elementor-2058\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-6d766833 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"6d766833\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-35ba6829\" data-id=\"35ba6829\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7426bbfe elementor-widget elementor-widget-theme-post-title elementor-page-title elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"7426bbfe\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"theme-post-title.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-xl\">Keynote Lecture @ Torrance Festival of Ideas<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-33ed617d elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"33ed617d\" 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elementor-post-info__item elementor-post-info__item--type-date\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<time>April 18, 2023<\/time>\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-471b8fd9 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"471b8fd9\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-2cfd5f0e\" data-id=\"2cfd5f0e\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4e1bb9e5 elementor-widget 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https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/cast\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/113\/2023\/04\/torranceFestival-2048x1152.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/cast\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/113\/2023\/04\/torranceFestival-1568x882.jpeg 1568w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-29b0531b\" data-id=\"29b0531b\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-41ba54be elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"41ba54be\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Mark Shepard kicked off this year\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/coe.uga.edu\/events\/torrance-festival\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Torrance Festival of Ideas\u00a0<\/a>with a lecture based on his recent book <em><a href=\"https:\/\/mitpress.mit.edu\/9780262047470\/there-are-no-facts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">There Are No Facts<\/a><\/em>.\u00a0He addressed how attentive algorithms and extractive data practices are shaping space, influencing behavior, and colonizing everyday life. Articulating post-truth territory as an architectural and infrastructural condition, the talk examines how these spatial architectures of attention and data mining are in turn situated within broader histories of empiricism, objectivity, science, colonialism, and perception.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-083fe48 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"083fe48\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-2129067\" data-id=\"2129067\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap 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