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Read the intro to Peter Knight’s ‘Conspiracy Culture’ and answer the following questions:

1. What is the purpose of Knight’s study? Who is the audience, and how do you know?

2. According to Knight, what is the underlying emotional state of a conspiracy theory?

3. Find in the intro where Knight mentions Frederick Jameson. Jameson uses the phrase ‘postmodern age’– what does that mean? Use Google or another search engine to find a definition.

4. Why do you think people create conspiracy theories? Does their creation resemble any other type of historical storytelling/belief system/ideology/worldview?

5. List examples of postmodernism in popular culture — things that are self-conscious. Fashion, TV shows, movies, music… ARTICLE: https://asu.digication.com/cryers-eng/conspiracy_c…