El complot en el poder

Who pulls the strings? Who hides behind what we see? Who benefits ultimately? Given the overwhelming complexity of our globalized present, more and more people are asking these types of questions. The world is becoming more and more indecipherable, so it must have a hidden side, a kind of secret kingdom within the State and the New World Order in which plans are forged, information manipulated and thoughts controlled. It is no longer a mere intrigue. Donatella Di Cesare diagnoses the conspiracy theory as one of the symptoms of a largely depoliticized democratic society. Conspiracy is the way in which citizens, powerless before a faceless techno-economic power, relate to the world. That is why conspiracy theories, a manifestation of the great void at the heart of democracy, are a fearsome weapon of massive depoliticization. In this lucid and original essay, the Italian philosopher investigates both the historical background and the most current aspects of this global phenomenon. In doing so, she does not reject conspiracy thinking as a mere chimera or argumentative fallacy, but instead strives to understand and reconceptualize it, reflecting on why conspiracy haunts a fragmented community as the specter of faceless power.