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The power of science consists, in the first place, in its conflation of knowledge and truth. Devising a method of proving the validity of propositions about objects taken as external to the knower has become identical with what we mean by truth.

Stanley Aronowitz

The human understanding resembles not a dry light, but admits a tincture of the will and passions, which generate their own system accordingly; for man always believes more readily that which he prefers.

Stanley Aronowitz

The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer fact but an opinion. There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.

Stanley Aronowitz

Stanley Aronowitz

Stanley Aronowitz

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Born: January 6, 1933

Died: August 16, 2021 (aged 88)

Bio: Stanley Aronowitz was a professor of sociology, cultural studies, and urban education at the CUNY Graduate Center.

Known for:

Against schooling (2008)
The knowledge factory (2000)
How Class Works (2003)

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