If intelligence has always been a contested site—attributed, withheld, performed, disputed—misinformation and disinformation reveal the political stakes of that contest in their sharpest form. The seventh seminar in the Vera List Center’s Matter of Intelligence series, presented in partnership with Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) as part of its Uncertain Intelligences research program, explores uncertainty in the context of contemporary cultural, political, and technological transformations. The programme approaches uncertainty as a productive point of departure for reflecting on existing structures of truth and credibility, their impact on forms of knowledge and reality, asking whose uncertainty counts as honest doubt and whose counts as bad faith?  

Uncertain Intelligences fellows, Nora Al-Badri, manuel arturo abreu, and other speakers consider how artistic practice might engage these conditions by holding complexity, sustaining uncertainty without surrendering to it, and refusing false clarity without collapsing into relativism.