V–A–C Sreda online magazine continues its final three-month series of podcasts on significant cultural phenomena of the past that are now almost forgotten or considered extinct, but nevertheless continue to exist.
In this episode, we discuss conspiracy theories. When and why did they emerge? What is “QAnon”? How are reptilians, Catherine the Great, and Kanye West related? And is it true that believing in conspiracy theories is actually quite rational?
V–A–C Sreda editor Maxim Shibaev considers these and other questions alongside conspiracy theory researchers Konstantin Mikhailov and Kristina Diskopank.