This course is designed to provide students with an in-depth understanding of theoretical conspiracies and their genesis, including: 1) types of conspiracy; 2) dynamic conspiricism as a worldview; 3) burden of proof and unfalsifiability; 4) the function of paranoia and other psychological phenomena in theory development, including the concepts of projection and epistemic bias; 5) socio-political origins, influence of critical theory, and the elucidated difference between institutional analysis; and 6) the political use of the term and its media tropes. Prerequisites: basic psychology, introduction to memery, Alex Jones studies.

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