Paranoid Publics
- Author(s):
- Zahid R. Chaudhary (see profile)
- Date:
- 2022
- Group(s):
- 2020 MLA Convention
- Subject(s):
- Neoliberalism, Psychoanalysis, Political economy, Frankfurt school, New media
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- conspiracy, paranoia, Democracy
- Permanent URL:
- https://doi.org/10.17613/2300-d166
- Abstract:
- This article takes up the insurrection in Washington DC, and the paranoid politics of QAnon. It analyzes the gamification of paranoia across QAnon and related paranoid publics, tracking such gamification as a political-economic demand generated by neoliberalism. Taking seriously Sigmund Freud's insight that delusional formations are attempts at recovery, this article reads QAnon as a part of a symptomatology of the social world.
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- xml
- Published as:
- Journal article Show details
- Pub. DOI:
- 10.1215/21599785-9547248
- Publisher:
- Duke UP
- Pub. Date:
- April 2022
- Journal:
- History of the Present
- Volume:
- 12
- Issue:
- 1
- Page Range:
- 103 - 126
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 1 week ago
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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