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How Social Media was Weaponized to Divide South Africans – The Tale of Bell Pottinger & The ‘Zuptas’
credit: The New Yorker; Illustration by Ben Jones In 2016, through various agents and representatives, scandalized former President Jacob...
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“DEUS VULT”: Pete Hegseth’s Problematic Tattoos & the Fetishization of The Crusades
Hegseth's official US gov portrait; image credit: Wikipedia Pete Hegseth – the United States’ Secretary of Defense – a man in a key...
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The Camp of the Saints: Part Two - A History of Violence
History Rewritten Continuing with our analysis, this second part focuses on historic revisionism, the celebration and fetishization of...
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The Camp of the Saints: The Most Racist Book of Recent History - Part One
“Now when the thousand years have expired, Satan will be released from his prison. And will go out to deceive the nations which are in...
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Gamergate: Gaming, The Culture War, & The Rise of the Alt-Right
In the mid-2010s, an online movement known as Gamergate was formed which would alter the gaming industry forever,...
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Eurabia Part Two: The Counter Jihad & the Influences of Eurabia
(This paper is the second part of an exploration of Eurabia; an anti-Muslim conspiracy theory. For Part One, please click here .) Bat...
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Eurabia: The Founding Myth of Contemporary Islamophobia - Part One
Islamophobic conspiracy theories are as old as the faith itself; with such theories becoming popular through historical periods like the...
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Conspiracy vs Conspiracy Theory
This paper is part of a series exploring the nature of conspiracy theories and conspiratorial thinking, in order to elucidate a model for...
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Roland Barthes: Part Two - Myth & Meaning in the Era of the Internet
The New 'Myth Today' (This paper is part of our series on Structuralism and Post Structuralism, click here to be redirected to the first...
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Mythologies & Conspiracies: The Work of Roland Barthes - Part One
Myth and Mythology Conspiracy theories have come to play a central role in political discourse in recent years, driving decisive...
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Galileo’s Gambit: PragerU’s Anti-Science for Kids
PragerU is a conservative right-wing American media and education company that uses a largely online based model for its courses and...
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Donald Trump & Conservative America’s Love Story with South African Land
In the past few weeks, the South African government has signed into law the Land Expropriation Act; intending to govern the process of...
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