The Ordinary Affects of Conspiracy Thinking

阴谋论思维是我们这个时代最麻烦、最引人注目的现象之一。在这个领域流传的理论对他们的支持者有着非凡的吸引力；有时会导致危及生命的决定，比如拒绝接种疫苗。在亲密关系中，这种现象是人们每天关注的话题，因为人们目睹亲密的其他人滑入偏执扭曲的现实，而对糟糕想法的怀疑现在渗透到对他人的日常评估中。然而，关于这一现象的学术研究主要集中在它的大规模表达上，同时试图勾勒出阴谋论的本质及其宏观解释(后真相时代，社交媒体的影响等)。这个项目直接解决了被忽视的阴谋论思维的日常方面，试图了解阴谋论是如何产生、遭遇、执行和感受到的，作为日常生活的一部分。通过与具有不同关系的人合作，并辅之以在线观察，这个项目将产生关于阴谋论依恋的新知识，这些知识来自于阴谋论的产生、扩散和对日常生活的影响。概念和方法框架将使这项研究能够引出阴谋论思维的情感和情感方面。这项研究将主要依靠访谈，围绕新冠肺炎大流行后有关疫苗的替代讨论。额外的创造性方法将使该项目能够强调伴随着阴谋论思维经历而产生的情感强度。其结果将是关于阴谋论思维如何发生并成为人们日常生活一部分的新知识。

Conspiratorial thinking is one of the most troublesome and high-profile phenomena of our time. Theories circulating in this realm have a remarkable hold on their supporters; sometimes leading to life-endangering decisions, such asrefusing vaccination. In intimate relationships this phenomenon is a daily topic of concern, as people witness intimate others slip into paranoid distorted realities, while suspicions of bad thinking now permeate daily evaluations of others. However, scholarly work on this phenomenon has mainly concentrated on its large-scale expression, while seeking to draw the outline of an essence of conspiracy theories and their macro explanations (a 'posttruth' age, the impact of social media etc). This project directly addresses the neglected everyday aspects of conspiratorial thinking by seeking to understand how conspiracies are produced, encountered, performed and felt as part of everyday life. By working with people with different relations with conspiracy thinking supplemented with online observation, this project will generate new knowledge about the ways attachments to conspiracy theories emerge from, proliferate through, and make a difference to daily life. The conceptual and methodological frameworks will allow this research to draw out the affective and emotional facet of conspiratorial thinking. Centring on alternative discourses on vaccines in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, this research will primarily rely on interviews. Additional creative method will allow the project to accentuate affective intensities that arise alongside experiences of conspiratorial thinking. Theresult will be new knowledge about how conspiracy thinking happens and becomes part of people's everyday life.