I Believe to Know: Scientific (Fake) Documentary and the Impasses of Scientific Knowledge
I Believe to Know: Scientific (Fake) Documentary and the Impasses of Scientific Knowledge

Summary/Abstract: This text discusses three documentary films (a fake documentary, an episode of a scientific documentary series and a documentary on flat-Earthers) to discuss the limits of knowledge and belief for scientific discourse, and how psychoanalysis enters this debate by insisting in the presence of a subject (a subject of the signifier, not the psychological subjectivity). This, in turn, reflects on a political task for documentary cinema: to assume a subjective position, insofar as they are not films that are true or manipulative, but films about the structural place of Truth, and as such, they reflect on the gap between knowledge and belief.

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