David R. Castillo is Professor of Spanish and co-director of the Center for Information Integrity at the University at Buffalo, where he served as Chair of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures (2009-2015) and Humanities Institute Director (2016-2022). He is a 2018 recipient of the UB Exceptional Scholar Award for Sustained Achievement and a 2001 recipient of the University of Oregon Ersted Award for Distinguished Teaching. Castillo is the author of Un-Deceptions, Baroque Horrors, and Awry Views, and co-author of Medialogies: Reading Reality in the Age of Inflationary Media, What Would Cervantes Do? and Zombie Talk. He has coedited the essay collections Continental Theory Buffalo, Reason and Its Others, Writing in the End Times, and the forthcoming Truth Seeking in Our Age of (Mis)Information Overload and Anti-Disinformation Pedagogies. He is currently working on a new coauthored book on Democracy in the Age of AI.
David R. Castillo
Contributions
Humanities to the Rescue: A Militant Editorial Project
The deterioration of the information environment in our age of inflationary media has precipitated a crisis of reality: any sort of baseline for what we take to be “facts” no longer exists. Evidence-based information is routinely drowned in a media market that rewards the loudest and most strident voices at the expense of truth and the common good.