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In 2022, I was asked to contribute to a symposium at Yale Law School on the question, "How can the humanities inform tech policy and design to promote 'healthier' discourse and democracy online?" The ultimate result was this article, published in the 2023 symposium issue of the Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities. It places the current fears over misinformation, disinformation, and conspiracy theories into historical context, by means of a comparison with the nineteenth century, and with the panics over conspiratorial and technological threats to "democracy" in the ante-bellum era. Specifically, it traces the dramatic career of the man that many saw as the pre-eminent American of his age -- the artist, inventor, and conspiracist, Samuel F. B. Morse -- who brought the abstract notion of "democracy" to life not only through his art, but more powerfully, through dire prophesies of foreign subversion.
This is a video comprising an audio recording of the article as published, accompanied by illustrating slides and visuals.
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Thank you to the editors and staff of the Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities and the Justice Collaboratory.