Oedipus and the cabal: conspiracy theories and the decline of symbolic efficiency

Conspiracy theories are a means by which people make sense of vastly complex webs of cause and effect, contingency, and random chance. Impersonal operations of a political economy thus become personified in the figure of sinister puppet masters controlling the world. Overdetermined historical events...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brian Hughes
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2024-04-01
Series:Frontiers in Communication
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcomm.2024.1376085/full