Mes: julio 2023

In recent years, conspiracy theories have flourished all over the world. They have taken on important political dimensions by attracting certain sectors of the population. The current example par excellence is QAnon in the US, a group born of conspiracy theories that became a political support base for the right-wing government of Donald Trump, to the point of storming the Capitol in 2021 when he lost the presidential election. Conspiratorial explanations of reality are flourishing…

«It is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism», this phrase by the Marxist Fredric Jameson and popularized by Slavoj Žižek is a critique of the dominant capitalist ideology and the failure of the left to build a vision that encourages social change. For the ideology of «capitalist realism,» as defined by Mark Fisher, capitalism is not only the dominant system, it is the only viable one, there are…

Las teorías de la conspiración han florecido en los últimos años alrededor del mundo y han tomado vuelos políticos importantes al atraer hacia sí a ciertos sectores populares. El ejemplo actual por excelencia es QAnon en EUA, un grupo creado a partir de las teorías de la conspiración, que se convirtió en una base de apoyo político al gobierno de derecha de Donald Trump, a tal grado que asaltaron el Capitolio en 2021 cuando éste…