We often perceive knowledge as unquestionably correct, factual, and unbiased. However, popular notions of "truth," "knowledge," and "history" actually skew our perceptions of the past, present, and future. The discourses and wisdom we acquire inevitably taint our relationships with matter, spatiality, and time. German philosophers Friedrich Nietzsche and Walter Benjamin address the partiality of knowledge. Nietzsche's "On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense" uses metaphor and the human condition to emphasize the subjective nature of knowledge, concepts, and truths, while Benjamin's "On the Concept of History" critiques historicism by criticizing written histories, historical materialism, and our belief that progress is good.…