Jesse Walker
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Jesse Walker is a media theorist and historian of conspiracy culture whose work examines how paranoia and conspiratorial thinking operate as interpretive frameworks within American society. His book *The United States of Paranoia* appears to ground the course's discussion of how conspiracy narratives function as parallel epistemologies—systems of meaning-making that compete with or mirror institutional knowledge. The readings use Walker to contextualize how networked information systems and AI might amplify or reshape conspiratorial thought patterns, making him essential to understanding how Pandaemonium's themes of control, visibility, and pattern-recognition intersect with popular belief systems.
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