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Paranoia

The Guardian That Never Sleeps

The Guardian That Never Sleeps

For almost ninety years mass anxieties about kidnapping and child abuse have driven the development of surveillance technologies focused on seeing and hearing children. How might these technologies impact the relationships between mothers and children?

The Paranoid Style of Motherhood

The Paranoid Style of Motherhood

Child abuse conspiracy theories are rife at present, but they predate QAnon, and they even go much further back than the conspiracizing that gave rise to QAnon.

On Paranoid Culture, Part One: An Apocalyptic Jewish Sect Goes Mainstream

On Paranoid Culture, Part One: An Apocalyptic Jewish Sect Goes Mainstream

The only way to read “The Gospel According to Matthew” today is not to read it.

From 9/11 to Ted Lasso

From 9/11 to Ted Lasso

Warm hugs of nice after the slow, torturous death of irony.

Remain in Light

Remain in Light

In paranoia, as opposed to in psychoanalysis, things <em>always</em> have a deeper meaning.

The Digital Claustrum

The Digital Claustrum

Our contemporary social media ecosystem is both the product of and the producer of the accelerating destruction of social bonds.