Inspire and Conspire: Iconicity, Technologies, and Religiosity of QAnon
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https://doi.org/10.29092/uacm.v23i60.1258Keywords:
QAnon, conspiracy theory, far-right politics, United States of America, religionAbstract
The QAnon conspiracy emerged at the end of the second decade of the 21st century in the USA. This article analyses the relevance of the iconicity in the expansion of its conspiratorial message; the perception of technology among its believers; and the decentralized structure of this extreme right-wing movement, with a religious core. This one is characterized by a catechist pedagogy, the link between praying and causal relationships, and an eschatological framework. This theoretical approach, based as well on primary sources, links QAnon with Western doctrines, and analyzes how the believers reformulate them for the systematic and massive dissemination of the conspiracy theory.
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