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Disintermediation involves the now widespread social practice of being informed without any filter, that is to say through direct contact with information circulated via mass or social media. With no intermediary – i.e. an authoritative…
Read more of Estrella Gualda Caballero on disintermediation, or look who’s talking
Taking these investigations and concerns as a point of departure, it is now possible to present the main findings in this discipline. In brief, it appears that conspiracy theories are not a marginal phenomenon and…
Read more of Julien Giry & Pranvera Tika on what political science thinks of conspiracy theorists
Popper’s influential contribution to the analysis of modern conspiracy culture is complemented by the lesser – known concept of the ‘conspiracy theory of ignorance’: The notion that our ignorance is deliberately caused by some conspiring…
Mass media have played, and continue to play, a large role in the ‘uncovering’ of evil forces. Not only newspapers, radio and television spread news of witchcraft, but in films produced for a mass audience…
In some cases, it may be difficult to say whether an explanation refers to a ‘conspiracy’ rather than to some other sort of confidential cooperation. However, secret cooperative activities whose aims and nature conflict with…
Read more of Juha Räikkä & Juho Ritola on what is a conspiracy
Bratich’s [Bratich, J.Z. (2008) Conspiracy panics: political rationality and popular culture, Albany: State University of New York Press] line of argument, implies that conspiracy theories, if they exist at all, only do so from the…
Read more of Andrew McKenzie-McHarg on (a)temporality of conspiracy theories
On the one hand, they [conspiracy theories] are an object of study like any other phenomenon that engages the attention of social scientists and scholars in the humanities. On the other hand, conspiracy theories us…
According to historian Geoffrey Cubbit [‘Conspiracy Myths and Conspiracy Theories’, Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford, 1989, 20(1): 12-26], conspiracy theories are a way of making sense of current events and the grand sweep…
Что, если видовая дивергенція уже происходитъ, и не (только) на уровнѣ элитъ? Все, начинающееся либо перефразируемое съ “трансъ-” – трансгуманизмъ, трансгендерность, добываемыя при помощи психоактивныхъ веществъ и оккультныхъ, напримѣръ неоязыческихъ, практикъ трансовыя состоянія, видовая /…
For a century and a half after Ficino, the idea that there was a Perennial Philosophy [the idea that “[a]ll religions shared a common origin in a single perennial (or primeval or primordial) religion that…
Read more of Mark Sedgwick (& René Guénon) on the key concepts of Traditionalism