What Can We Learn From Fakes?
Gresham College Lectures
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The Shadows of Fake
The observer's perspective is really important in determining whether something is real or fake. As in gungi wathiango, the canyon writer and post colonial theory, at the time, even the time and the passage through the window or a crack in the wall, determine how the shadow falls on the subject. The film itself depicts fake as fakes as a bit of a misdirection. It's a distraction from our sattually thinking about some of the more serious things er round questions abount authorship, authenticity and around experts. We also can see that actually in the twenythe end of the twentieth century and beginning of the 20 first century, comedy and parody became really important tools
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