Conspiracism as strategy: QAnon, Politics, and Social Media

The Maudsley Philosophy Group is a registered charity (reg.no 1120868) providing a cross-disciplinary forum where academics, public intellectuals and policy-makers come together with clinical and academic psychiatrists to explore and challenge understandings of mental health and illness. The MPG has recently taken on the theme of 'Power & Personality', continuing the work of Lord David Owen and the Daedalus Trust on the 'Hubris Syndrome'

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Dr Quinton Deeley speaks on the MPG theme of power and personality, exploring QAnon and conspiracy theory

Please join us for the final seminar of the Maudsley Philosophy Group&#x27;s autumn seminar series in which we welcome Dr Quinton Deeley, psychiatrist and senior lecturer at King&#x27;s College London, who will be speaking on the Maudsley Philosophy Group theme of power and personality, exploring QAnon and conspiracy theory.Conspiracism as strategy: QAnon, Politics, and Social MediaQAnon, an internet conspiracy theory that the world is run by a cabal of Satan-worshiping paedophiles, is one of many conspiracy theories that have rapidly spread through the US and more widely. In this seminar we will consider what motivates such apparently irrational beliefs, how they propagate so quickly, and what they reveal about the social and political influences on how people interpret the world. In doing so we will explore the history of the anti-Semitic blood libel, the social anthropology of witchcraft, the cognitive neuropsychiatry of delusions, social media and coalitional cognition, conspiracism as political strategy, and a consequent tilt from realism to perspectivism in our implicit epistemology.

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