The Promise of Ideo-logic, the Psycho-Epistemic Organization of Socio-Symbolic Systems

Piercosma Bisconti; Valeria Cesaroni

The Promise of Ideo-logic, the Psycho-Epistemic Organization of Socio-Symbolic Systems

Piercosma Bisconti, Valeria Cesaroni

Abstract

The aim of this work is to develop a comparative analysis of the discursive structures that underlie the socialized formation of the interpretative paradigms of reality. We analyse how both political ideologies and the so-called “conspiracy theories” can be understood starting from the structure and functioning of Marc Augè's ideo-logic, namely the systemic-discursive device that defines the field of all possible sentences defining the real.

Keywords

Ideology; Conspiracy theories; Epistemic; Psychoanalysis; Semiotics

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