From the unbelievable to the undeniable: Epistemological pluralism, or how conspiracy theorists legitimate their extraordinary truth claims
From the unbelievable to the undeniable: Epistemological pluralism, or how conspiracy theorists legitimate their extraordinary truth claims
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从难以置信到不可否认：认识论多元化，或者阴谋论者如何证明他们非凡的真理主张
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2019
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S. Aupers
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Jaron Harambam;S. Aupers
尽管他们的耻辱，阴谋论是非常受欢迎的今天，并已渗透到主流文化。这些理论逐渐扩展为大型的欺骗计划，其中“一切都是相互关联的”。除了讨论他们的真实性，我们在这篇文章中研究如何使这种“超级阴谋论”变得合理。我们战略性地选择了大卫·艾克（David Icke）作为案例研究对象，分析他的合法化话语策略：他如何支持和验证自己的非凡主张？这是我们的论点，艾克成功地利用多种来源的认识权威;他借鉴折衷的“经验”，“传统”，“未来主义意象”，“科学”和“社会理论”来说服他的观众。在一个对真理没有任何完全垄断的西方文化中，对于一个对主流权威持谨慎态度的民族来说，在声称知识时利用各种各样的认识来源是合适的。
Despite their stigma, conspiracy theories are hugely popular today and have pervaded mainstream culture. Increasingly, such theories expanded into large master schemes of deceit where ‘everything is connected’. Moving beyond discussions of their truthfulness, we study in this article how such ‘super conspiracy theories’ are made plausible. We strategically selected the case study of David Icke – a true celebrity in conspiracy circles and main proponent of such all-encompassing narratives – to analyze his discursive strategies of legitimation: How does he support and validate his extraordinary claims? It is our argument that Icke succeeds by exploiting multiple sources of epistemic authority; he draws eclectically on ‘experience’, ‘tradition’, ‘futuristic imageries’, ‘science’ and ‘social theory’ to convince his audience. In a Western culture without any full monopoly on truth, and for a people wary of mainstream authorities, it proves opportune to draw on a wide variety of epistemic sources when claiming knowledge.