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A good starting point for such an approach is Slavoj Žižek’s brilliant reconceptualization of ideology as a matter of action rather than knowledge. For Žižek, the sign of an effective ideology is not “false consciousness”…
Read more of Timothy Melley (& Slavoj Žižek): I know very well… but just the same…
He [conspiracy theorist Stan Deyo, author of The Cosmic Conspiracy (1978), “fus[ing] Illuminati theory with dispensational premillennialism and a variety of UFO speculation generally referred to as Alternative 3”, ibid., p. 57] enters new territory,…
Read more of Michael Barkun on miscellaneous conspiracy theories
У отечественной прогрессивной общественности дефолтная картина міра смахиваетъ на канатъ, натянутый до треска между фактическимъ “вейся, вейся, черный флагъ, государство – главный врагъ” – но безъ той когнитивной сложности, которая все-таки присуща даже и анархизму…
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The problem turned out to be that, although not one single piece of information in either article was classified, GCHQ [Government Communications Headquarters] feared that the way that all the individual Unclassified details were put…
Going back to the sixteenth century it is almost certain that, in different ways, John Dee, Giordano Bruno and Christopher Marlowe were all spies. – A Brief History of Secret Societies: An Unbiased History of…
Hasan-i-Sabbah was a Persian Twelver who converted to Ismailism and became an enthusiastic missionary for its cause, and a supporter of Nizar. In his youth he studied alongside the future tentmaker, astronomer and poet Omar…
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Читаю подаренный на день рожденія (спасибо еще разъ) “Безконечный тупикъ” Д.Е. Галковскаго – удивительно-уютный романъ, исполинскія метатекстовыя пролегомены къ чтенію изъ моего любимаго русскаго философа В.В. Розанова. Это исчадіе литературы представляетъ собой неожиданный подходъ къ…
Закрадывается мысль, будто бы судьба ныне, кажется, совершенно увядшаго и маргинализировавшагося традиціонализма – и въ какой-то мѣрѣ и гуманитарнаго знанія въ цѣломъ – могла сложиться нѣсколько по-другому, если бы не убійство профессора Іоана Куліану въ…
Let us suppose that A is a multiple individual, a crowd with uniform reactions. B is a prophet, the founder of a religion, or a political leader, who, using magic techniques of persuasion, subjugates A.…
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Bruno is the first to exploit the concept of magic to its ultimate conclusions, envisaging this “science” as an infallible psychological instrument for manipulating the masses as well as the individual human being. Awareness of…
Read more of Ioan Culianu on De vinculis in genere and The Prince