Renata Salecl

"Drawing on philosophy, social and psychoanalytic theory, popular culture, and her own experience, Salecl explores how the passion for ignorance plays out in many different aspects of life today, from love, illness, trauma, and the fear of failure to genetics, forensic science, big data, and the Incel movement-and she concludes that ignorance is a complex phenomenon that can, on occasion, benefit individuals and society as a whole"--

What We Choose Not to Know and Why

A Passion for Ignorance

Nicholas Hanemann

A short volume that covers the topic of ignorance in some of its more interesting modern contexts, such as genetic testing and data surveillance, through a psychoanalytic lens. Though it references a fair number of interesting thinkers, there's an assumption of familiarity that reduces the impact of their inclusion to the layman. I think I'll come back to this in a year or two and see if I get more out of it then.

A Passion for Ignorance What We Choose Not to Know and Why

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