Abstract
This article takes up the recent insurrection in Washington, DC, and the paranoid politics of QAnon. It analyzes the gamification of paranoia across QAnon and related paranoid publics. 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.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 103-126 |
| Number of pages | 24 |
| Journal | History of the Present |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2022 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- History
Keywords
- QAnon
- conspiracy
- neoliberalism
- paranoia
- play