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Peter Knight
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Peter Knight is a scholar of conspiracy theory and contemporary culture who authored *Conspiracy Culture: From Kennedy to the X-Files*, a foundational text mapping how conspiracy thinking saturates late twentieth-century media and imagination. His work provides the course with a critical framework for understanding how conspiratorial logic operates across culture—from historical events to fictional narratives—and how it intersects with the broader technological anxieties that underpin both cybernetics and AI discourse. Knight's approach enables the seminar to trace conspiracy epistemology as a precursor to contemporary concerns about algorithmic opacity and machinic intentionality.
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