Narrating Conspiracy Theories: A Paradoxical Ethics of Otherness, Propaganda and Mistrust

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dc.contributor.authorBohovyk, Oksana A.en
dc.contributor.authorBezrukov, Andrii V.en
dc.date.accessioned2024-03-20T11:28:58Z
dc.date.available2024-03-20T11:28:58Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.descriptionO. Bohovyk: ORCID 0000-0003-4315-2154; A. Bezrukov: ORCID 0000-0001-5084-6969en
dc.description.abstractENG: Reflecting conspiracy theories in contemporary fiction actualises conspiratorial thinking as a specific sociocultural phenomenon and narrative. Four symptomatic novels – George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, Ahmed Khaled Towfik’s Utopia, and Stephen King’s The Institute – have been analysed from a conspiratorial perspective to illuminate the most efficient ways of shaping the human perception of reality. For this purpose, the following conspiracy elements have been delineated to be the basis of the novels’ poetics: otherness, propaganda and mistrust. They affect the authors’ strategies of storytelling in the books written in the era of the end of truth. Following an interdisciplinary approach that primarily includes the method of narrative construction and semiotic analysis, the article focuses on the conspiracy elements for plotting the selected novels and explicates the conspiracy narratives for manifesting the paradoxical ethics of truth as fiction. Conceptualising this idea in the sociocultural context confers to such a kind of literature a new ethical dimension.en
dc.identifier.citationBohovyk, O., Bezrukov A. Narrating Conspiracy Theories: A Paradoxical Ethics of Otherness, Propaganda and Mistrust. Enthymema. 2024. No. 34. P. 164–179. DOI: 10.54103/2037-2426/18614.en
dc.identifier.issn2037-242
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.54103/2037-2426/18614
dc.identifier.urihttps://crust.ust.edu.ua/handle/123456789/18328
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherUniversity of Milan Publisher
dc.subjectuntruthfulnessen
dc.subjecttroubled Societyen
dc.subjectconspiracy discourseen
dc.subjectfictionalityen
dc.subjectescapismen
dc.subjectКФПuk_UA
dc.titleNarrating Conspiracy Theories: A Paradoxical Ethics of Otherness, Propaganda and Mistrusten
dc.typeArticleen
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