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Mark Carrigan

Raiding the inarticulate since 2010

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  • Wrestling as an incubator of conspiracy culture

  • Epidemiological self-consciousness and the suddenly countercultural status of the sovereign individual

  • Liberal conspiracism and the parts of the psyche that media literacy training doesn’t touch

  • Contemporary fascism mobilises passions which are a (fleeting) escape from the paralysis borne of a dying civilization

  • Erfahrung: conspiracies, baking and the return of the repressed

  • Shock as a narrative vacuum

  • What if those who lap up the eschatological enthusiasms of Left Behind and QAnon are in many cases survivors of their own chronic and acute disasters?

  • Social platforms as a machine for generating apophenia

  • Bourdieu on powerlessness and prophecy

  • The shifting landscape of misinformation: from macro-conspiracies to micro-conspiracies

  • Platform capitalism and the compulsive search for signs

  • Hannah Arendt on Conspiracies

  • The spectral character of Covid-19, or, will growing deaths undermine denialism

  • What comes after Trump?

  • digital capitalism and the bestiary of the imagination 

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