The Fact Society: An Intervention
With the recent launch and baffling popularity of the so-called Fact Society's color theory skepticism website, it has become clear that those of us who have dedicated our life's work to unseating color theory as the dominant paradigm of color thought can no longer ignore what we had previously considered to be merely a fringe group without impact or theoretical value. The sudden possibility that this organization might soon be in a position to dictate the direction of broader anti-color-theorism discourse is an uncomfortable one, to say the least, and a dangerous one, to say a little more. The Fact Society first became known to me two years ago. In a letter, my former colleague Dr. Alona Barreguiti mentioned having been introduced to an odd and somewhat secretive group by a student of hers. Then known as the Society for Color Realism, the organization consisted of an unclear (but evidently small) number of decidedly amateur color theorists with obscure goals and views sometim...