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À l’époque d’Internet, tout événement dramatique trouve sur les réseaux sociaux des «analystes» expliquant que la version officielle cache des intérêts secrets, selon un plan devant être soigneusement décrypté. «Réveillez-vous, on vous ment!», clame Alain Soral devant sa webcam. Depuis les attentats du 11 septembre 2001, les discours complotistes ont proliféré sur la Toile, semant la méfiance envers tout discours officiel et creusant une scission de plus en plus grave au sein de notre société. Se présentant comme «alternatifs», ils prétendent rétablir une «vérité» dévoyée. Si le fantasme d’un groupe occulte agissant dans l’ombre pour accomplir un but machiavélique n’est pas nouveau, il est important de connaître les ressorts actuels de ce phénomène. Car ces théories du complot ont remis au goût du jour des discours d’inspiration fasciste et antisémite, leur donnant une coloration «moderne». Sur fond d’islamophobie et de haine des juifs, elles sont sous-tendues par une idéologie réactionnaire qui se nourrit des problèmes sociopolitiques contemporains. Poser le bon diagnostic est indispensable car, loin d’être le fait de farfelus ou d’ignorants, le complotisme est le symptôme d’une véritable maladie de société.

Conspiracies --- Competition, International --- Mass media --- Disinformation --- Conspiracy theories

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Cognitive psychology --- conspiracy --- conspiracy theory --- paranoia --- intention seekers --- proportion distortion --- the human mind --- conspiracy theories --- conspiracism --- conspiracies --- conspiracy thinking --- psychology --- psychological aspects of conspiracy belief --- psychology of conspiracy theories --- disinformation

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If parapolitics, a branch of radical criminology that studies the interactions between public entities and clandestine agencies, is to develop as an academic discipline, then it must develop a coherent theory of aesthetics in order to successfully perform its primary function: to render perceptible extra-judicial phenomena that have hitherto resisted formal classification.Wilson offers the work of H.P. Lovecraft (1890-1937) as an example of the relevance of subversive literature--in this case, cosmic horror and the weird tale--to the parapolitical criminologist. Cosmic horror is a form of writing that relies heavily upon the epistemological assumption of a radical and irreconcilable disjunction between appearance and reality, perception and truth. In many ways, the well-constructed weird tale strongly resembles the hard-boiled detective story or the noir thriller in that the resolution of the narrative hinges upon a dramatically shattering confrontation with an unspeakable reality. Apart from its obvious utilization of conspiracy theory, the primary attraction of the Lovecraftian text lies with its remarkably sophisticated utilization of two central tropes of classical aesthetic theory--the sublime and the grotesque. Not only does Lovecraft's oeuvre represent a remarkable use of both of these motifs, but the raw literary power of the Lovecraftian weird tale serves as an outstanding exemplar for the parapolitical scholar to emulate in formulating an alternative mode of discourse, or poetics.

Structuralism (Literary analysis) --- Conspiracy theories in literature. --- Lovecraft, H. P. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- H.P. Lovecraft --- parapolitics --- radical criminology --- horror --- conspiracy theory

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Conspiracy theories --- Disinformation --- History --- Conspiracy theories - History - 21st century --- Disinformation - History - 21st century --- complotisme --- la psychologie social et cognitive --- les réseaux sociaux --- complotisme et racisme --- théorie du complot --- théories du complot --- complots --- désinformation --- conjurationnisme --- conspirationnisme --- pensée conspirationniste --- théorie complotiste --- typologie --- biais cognitifs --- biais de confirmation --- antisémitisme --- Eurabia

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"How--and why-- were UFOs so prevalent in both conspiracy theories and the New Age milieu in the post-Cold War period? In this ground-breaking book, David G. Robertson argues that UFOs symbolized an uncertainty about the boundaries between scientific knowledge and other ways of validating knowledge, and thus became part of a shared vocabulary. Through historical and ethnographic case studies of three prominent figures--novelist and abductee Whitley Strieber; environmentalist and reptilian proponent David Icke; and David Wilcock, alleged reincarnation of Edgar Cayce--the investigation reveals that millennial conspiracism offers an explanation as to why the prophesied New Age failed to arrive--it was prevented from arriving by malevolent, hidden others. Yet millennial conspiracism constructs a counter-elite, a gnostic third party defined by their special knowledge. An overview of the development of UFO subcultures from the perspective of religious studies, UFOs, Conspiracy Theories and the New Age is an innovative application of discourse analysis to the study of present day alternative religion."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Human-alien encounters. --- Conspiracy theories. --- New Age movement. --- Millennialism. --- Amillennialism --- Chiliasm --- Millenarianism --- Millennianism --- Postmillennialism --- Premillennialism --- Dispensationalism --- Fundamentalism --- Millennium (Eschatology) --- Aquarian Age movement --- Cults --- Social movements --- Occultism --- History --- Alien encounters with humans --- Alien-human contacts --- Alien-human encounters --- Close encounters of the third kind --- Contacts of humans with extraterrestrial beings --- Encounters of humans with extraterrestrial beings --- Extraterrestrial encounters with humans --- Extraterrestrial-human encounters --- Human-alien contacts --- Human contacts with extraterrestrial beings --- Human encounters with extraterrestrial beings --- Unidentified flying objects --- Extraterrestrial beings --- Errors, inventions, etc. --- Sightings and encounters --- Strieber, Whitley. --- Icke, David. --- Wilcock, David, --- Cayce, Edgar, --- Strieber, Louis Whitley --- Barry, Jonathan, --- Striber, Uitli --- שטרייבר, ויטלי --- Rencontres avec les extraterrestres --- Théories du complot --- Nouvel Age (Mouvement) --- Millénarisme --- Icke, David --- aquarian conspiracies --- Millennial Conspiracism --- UFOs --- Conspiracism --- popular Millennialism --- the Cold War --- 1947-1987 --- Whitley Strieber --- the Abductee Narrative --- David Icke --- the Reptilian Thesis --- the Science of Oneness --- David Wilcock --- 2012 Millennialism