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breakdown of
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explanation of
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Goodnight & Poulakos |
struggle: |
pragmatic vs.
fantastic |
these switch once
you start to believe |
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whole process: |
1. awakening to
possibility |
puzzle |
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2. struggle over the
real |
a. biased evidentiary sieve |
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b. paranoid skepticism |
of: |
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1. political
groups |
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2. professional
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3. international
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4. public
officials |
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3. overturning of former consensual reality |
a. increased claim of evil |
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b. focus on decoding secret language |
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c. determining breadth of spread |
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Neville-Shepard |
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Hofstader (insufficient -extremists only) |
paranoid style |
1. grand narrative |
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2. that transcends history |
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3. public villains |
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4. apocalyptic response |
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5 piles of evidence, tenuous logic |
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(better) |
subtextual form (appeals to nonextremists) |
1. anti establishment - |
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2. critique against dominant myth framework |
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3. broad political ideology emphasizing common ground
amongst believers |
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Reyes & Smith |
“conspiracy theory” |
oscillates between serious &
ironic |
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“conspiricism” |
People who are fans of multiple
conspiracies |
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thus the pleasures of less-serious
conspiracy thinking: |
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enthymeme |
the fun of finishing logicially
inevitable argument structures |
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entelechy |
the fun of defending a thesis at
all costs |
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jouissance |
the pleasures of engaging in a
particular text |
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bricolage |
the pleasures of surfing across
multiple texts |
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Baden &
Sharon |
Account Element. |
1. Corruption:
Pervasive Potency. |
2. Corruption:
Manichean Binary. |
3. Corruption:
Elusive Epistemology. |
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A. Responsible
Actor |
Collective actor
acting as one |
Actor alien to
society |
Fuzzy membership,
Actor hidden from public |
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B. Plan |
Plan for
fundamental social transformation |
Plan to subvert
natural moral/social/political/economic order |
Plan
secret/inaccessible |
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C. Controlling
Action |
Complete,
confident control over events |
Control
frustrates/voids others' freedom |
Control by hidden
means |
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D. Critique of
Existing Accounts |
Pervasive
manipulation/information control |
Binary of truth
and falsehood |
Suppression of
reliable/truthful information |
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E. Novel
Information |
Enables
funda-mentally different understanding |
Exclusion of
possible doubt |
Reliance on
speaker's rare, superior insight |
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F. Solution |
Revolutionary
public action |
Moral duty for
upright people |
Awaken to hidden
truth |
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