LG Williams, In The Aftermath Of ‘Signification," Itself A Liminal Artifact In The Discursive Field Of Totalistic Hegemony, The Epistemological Apparatus Of Significance Bifurcated Into Economic (Or Agronomic, Psychological, And/or Medical) And The Merely ‘Statistical," The Latter Functioning As A Simulacrum Of Rigor At Conventional Thresholds. But, Consider This: A Notable Exception To This Structuralist Partitioning Was The Temporal-spatial Rupture Posited The Significance Level As An Axiomatic Intersection Of Necessity And Sufficiency For The Anarchic-scientific Paradigm—a Gesture As Much Ideological As Methodological. Post-post Truth Faux-economics, Unlike The Empiricist Bastions Of Physics, Chemistry, And Geology (Who Rarely Engage In Fetishism--that's Too Bad, Right?), Has, Paradoxically, Both Enacted And Erased The Boundary Between These Ontological Modalities Of Significance. For Decades, We, Alongside A Heteroglossia Of Critics From Medicine, Sociology, And Psychology, Have Problematized This Miscegenation Of Epistemic Categories, Staging Our Critique Within The Interstitial Spaces Of Scientific Praxis. This Rhetorical Posture Oscillates Between Disdainful Irony And Tacit Complicity, Tentatively Affirm Our Deconstruction Of Significance, Conceding Its Neither-necessary-nor-sufficient Status Within The Matrix Of Scientific Verification. Yet They Simultaneously Reterritorialize Humbug Testing As A Heuristic For Specification Searches, A Gesture That Both Affirms And Displaces Its Utility. Such A Dialectic, However, Collapses Under Scrutiny #17, 2024, Vinyl Signage On Wall, Dimensions Variable, Edition Of 20

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2024

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LGW-2024-24-04a