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In an age where truth is both overexposed and inaccessible, the figure of the conspiracist returns-not as a madman, but as a symptom. Suspicion, long treated as a cognitive flaw or ideological threat, emerges here as a form of knowledge-in-waiting: a structure of interpretation forged at the intersection of betrayal, memory, and power.
This book offers a rigorous examination of conspiracy thinking, not to defend its conclusions, but to understand its function. Drawing on political history, anthropology, media theory, and epistemology, it maps the terrain where doubt is not error, but defense-where narratives dismissed as irrational often mirror fractures in the official version of reality.
Neither apocalyptic nor credulous, this is a study of suspicion as a cultural constant, a cognitive inheritance, and a political necessity. In a world governed as much by interface design and informational overload as by laws and institutions, the real question is no longer whether conspiracies exist, but how thought itself can survive their saturation.
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