Showing posts with label qanon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label qanon. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 2, 2021

Sunday, January 17, 2021

Blank Space QAnon. On the Success of a Conspiracy Fantasy as a Collective Text Interpretation Game


QAnon – the movement according to which Donald Trump wages a secret war against satanic and pedophilic elites – is not just a run-of-the-mill conspiracy belief, but functions as a collective text interpretation game. This is also the reason for his ridiculous success, which now includes the German Reichsbürger [people who believe that the German Reich still exists and that the Federal Republic of Germany is a company with no legal basis registered in Frankfurt] and the Corona denier scene. The fact that QAnon’s origin story was collaged from literary and popular cultural sources – among them a collective novel published in 1999 also by the co-author of this article – does not throw off its followers.


 

Monday, May 18, 2020

The Church of QAnon: Will conspiracy theories form the basis of a new religious movement


Followers of the QAnon movement believe in wild and dangerous conspiracy theories about U.S. President Donald Trump. Now a faction within the movement has been interpreting the Bible through QAnon conspiracies.