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Conspiracy and Contingency

Conspiracy and Contingency

Thorsten Botz-Bornstein

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Wimbledon Publishing
Año de edición:
2025
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Filosofía
ISBN:
9781839993138

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What do conspiracy theories, algorithms and meritocracy have in common? All three avoid contingency and frantically look for necessities. ’Contingency phobia’ is not only manifest in conspiratorial thinking. It is the cause of a variety of other phenomena that have become emblematic for liberal democracies.

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