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Why not engage in debate? If all the evidence supports vaccination, a debate might seem like an ideal opportunity to make the case for vaccinating and to demolish the arguments of the critics. However, there…
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While the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign was the first where digital technology played a significant role (and contestants had dedicated teams for this purpose), it was the very first major political event in which digitally…
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In fact, a frequent claim prevalent in the scholarship identifies the eighteenth century as the century that gave birth to conspiracy theory, or conspiracism, in a form that is recognisable to us today [Wood, G.S.…
It is common to find polarized communication networks on social media expressing situations of extremism, separation, rupture, etc. This means that the information is produced in a kind of closed system or echo chamber. Polarization…
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
Удивительно, насколько плачевное состояніе служебной (“прогрессивной”) антропологіи изоморфно прочему извергающемуся черезъ популярныя и околонаучныя мотиваціи и оправданія политическихъ и административныхъ рѣшеній пандемійному отстою. Вотъ примѣръ – статья облеченной опредѣленными регаліями фольклористки и антропологини Маріи Гавриловой…
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Въ продолженіе темы цитированія (см. здесь и немножко здесь): распространеніе видео въ ущербъ текстамъ не только чинитъ помѣхи цитированію, но и, мягко говоря, затрудняетъ полнотекстовый поискъ; кромѣ того, видео болѣе требовательны къ ресурсу памяти при…
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…
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The magic that concerns us here is theoretically a science of the imaginary, which it explores through its own methods and seeks to manipulate at will. At its greatest degree of development, reached in the…