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Spätestens seit der Coronapandemie sind Verschwörungstheorien ein Signum unserer Zeit. Je komplexer unsere Welt wird, desto mehr Menschen scheinen für ihre erklärenden Sinnangebote empfänglich. Elon Musk, der reichste Mensch der Welt, hat ein ganzes soziales Netzwerk in eine Schleuder für konspirationistische Erzählungen verwandelt. Donald Trump, der mächtigste Mensch der Welt, amtiert als conspiracy theorist in chief im Weißen Haus.

Michael Butter, Bestsellerautor und einer der renommiertesten Experten für das Thema, präsentiert die Ergebnisse seiner...

Plots, Designs, and Schemes is the first study that investigates the long history of American conspiracy theories from the perspective of literary and cultural studies. Since research in these fields has so far almost exclusively focused on the contemporary period, the book concentrates on the time before 1960. Four detailed case studies offer close readings of the Salem witchcraft crisis of 1692, fears of Catholic invasion during the 1830s to 1850s, antebellum conspiracy theories about slavery, and anxieties about Communist subversion during the 1950s. The study primarily engages...

Conspiracy Theories in the United States and the Middle East is the first book to approach conspiracy theorizing from a decidedly comparative and interdisciplinary perspective. Whereas previous studies have engaged with conspiracy theories within national frameworks only, this collection of essays draws attention to the fact that conspiracist visions are transnational narratives that travel between and connect different cultures. It focuses on the United States and the Middle East because these two regions of the world are entangled in manifold ways and conspiracy theories are...