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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>People are no longer blind.</blockquote>Rather than being a prophet bearing a revealed truth (and therefore risk reproducing the hierarchies that are seen to characterise the hegemonic episteme), Q is characterised as training participants in a way of seeing. Namely, a way of seeing that <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">scales down </del>the contingencies that <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">produce </del>the present into a format <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">which </del>is compatible with <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">its </del>conspiratorial worldview. At the same time, the Q Drops themselves are <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">additionally </del>mined by participants for signification at the increasingly molecular scales: of language, data, and meta-data (actual and esoteric) to the point of (but, notably, never reaching) exhaustion.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>People are no longer blind.</blockquote>Rather than being a prophet bearing a revealed truth (and therefore risk reproducing the hierarchies that are seen to characterise the hegemonic episteme), Q is characterised as training participants in a way of seeing. Namely, a way of seeing that <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">takes </ins>the contingencies that <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">produced </ins>the present <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and scales them down </ins>into a format <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">that </ins>is compatible with <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">QAnon's </ins>conspiratorial worldview. At the same time, the Q Drops themselves are <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> </ins>mined by participants for signification at the increasingly molecular scales: of language, data, and meta-data (actual and esoteric) to the point of (but, notably, never reaching) exhaustion.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>From its imaginary – that spans thousands of years and encompasses near-all contemporary and historical conspiracy theories – to the horde that overwhelmed the US Capitol on the 6<sup>th</sup> of January 2020, discourses on the topic of the far-right phenomenon known as ‘QAnon’ are characterised by an immensity of scale. Such an emphasis on the aggregate size of the phenomenon suggests that it is a commensurately massive product of what this publication terms ‘major tech.’ <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">However</del>, the salience of QAnon cannot <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">necessarily </del>be understood as a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">function </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">major tech</del>. Rather, QAnon is best understood as an assemblage ‘minor techs’: small-scale and contrarian practices and infrastructures whose granularity produces the conditions for the aggregation that we know as ‘QAnon.’</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>From its imaginary – that spans thousands of years and encompasses near-all contemporary and historical conspiracy theories – to the horde that overwhelmed the US Capitol on the 6<sup>th</sup> of January 2020, discourses on the topic of the far-right phenomenon known as ‘QAnon’ are characterised by an immensity of scale. Such an emphasis on the aggregate size of the phenomenon suggests that it is a commensurately massive product of what this publication terms ‘major tech.’</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Although QAnon is implicated in enormous societal upheaval for which the techno-social infrastructures of major tech have had an undeniable role</ins>, the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">contemporary </ins>salience of QAnon cannot be understood as <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">wholly </ins>a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">result </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">these forces</ins>. Rather, QAnon is best understood as an assemblage ‘minor techs’: small-scale and contrarian practices and infrastructures whose granularity produces the conditions for the aggregation that we know as ‘QAnon.’</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>From its imaginary – that spans thousands of years and encompasses near-all contemporary and historical conspiracy theories – to the horde that overwhelmed the US Capitol on the 6<sup>th</sup> of January 2020, discourses on the topic of the far-right phenomenon known as ‘QAnon’ are characterised by an immensity of scale. Such an emphasis on the aggregate size of the phenomenon suggests that it is a commensurately massive product of what this publication terms ‘major tech.’ <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">But</del>, the salience of QAnon cannot necessarily be understood as a function of major tech. Rather, QAnon is best understood as an assemblage ‘minor techs’: small-scale and contrarian practices and infrastructures whose granularity produces the conditions for the aggregation that we know as ‘QAnon.’</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>From its imaginary – that spans thousands of years and encompasses near-all contemporary and historical conspiracy theories – to the horde that overwhelmed the US Capitol on the 6<sup>th</sup> of January 2020, discourses on the topic of the far-right phenomenon known as ‘QAnon’ are characterised by an immensity of scale. Such an emphasis on the aggregate size of the phenomenon suggests that it is a commensurately massive product of what this publication terms ‘major tech.’ <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">However</ins>, the salience of QAnon cannot necessarily be understood as a function of major tech. Rather, QAnon is best understood as an assemblage ‘minor techs’: small-scale and contrarian practices and infrastructures whose granularity produces the conditions for the aggregation that we know as ‘QAnon.’</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>From <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">an </del>imaginary that spans thousands of years and encompasses near-all contemporary and historical conspiracy theories to the horde that overwhelmed the US Capitol on the 6<sup>th</sup> of January 2020, discourses on the topic of the far-right phenomenon known as ‘QAnon’ are characterised by an immensity <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">which, in turn, </del>suggests that <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">QAnon itself </del>is a commensurately massive product of what this publication terms ‘major tech.’</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>From <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">its </ins>imaginary <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">– </ins>that spans thousands of years and encompasses near-all contemporary and historical conspiracy theories <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">– </ins>to the horde that overwhelmed the US Capitol on the 6<sup>th</sup> of January 2020, discourses on the topic of the far-right phenomenon known as ‘QAnon’ are characterised by an immensity <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">of scale. Such an emphasis on the aggregate size of the phenomenon </ins>suggests that <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">it </ins>is a commensurately massive product of what this publication terms ‘major tech.’ <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">But</ins>, the salience of QAnon cannot <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">necessarily </ins>be understood as a function of major tech. Rather, QAnon is best understood as an assemblage ‘minor techs’: small-scale <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and contrarian </ins>practices and infrastructures whose granularity produces the conditions for the aggregation that we know as ‘QAnon.’</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Certainly, QAnon’s myriad articulations across the web represents a major problem for the future of a politics based on mutual intelligibility and was – for a time – exasperated by the scale and reach of the major social media platforms</del>, the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">contemporary </del>salience of QAnon cannot be understood as a function of major tech. Rather, QAnon is best understood as an assemblage ‘minor techs’: small-scale practices and infrastructures whose granularity produces the conditions for the aggregation that we know as ‘QAnon.’</div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Here, the term: ‘do your own research’ is instructive. Among the myriad and often opposed factions of QAnon the injunction to ‘do your own research’ is a shared refrain that characterises participation in QAnon as not simply a matter of belief, but as the (by implication, inevitable) result of the individual establishing the alleged veracity of the phenomenon’s imaginary for themselves.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Here, the term: ‘do your own research’ is instructive. Among the myriad and often opposed factions of QAnon the injunction to ‘do your own research’ is a shared refrain that characterises participation in QAnon as not simply a matter of belief, but as the (by implication, inevitable) result of the individual establishing the alleged veracity of the phenomenon’s imaginary for themselves.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>People are no longer blind.</blockquote>Rather than being a prophet bearing a revealed truth (and therefore risk reproducing the hierarchies that are seen to characterise the hegemonic episteme), Q is characterised as training <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">QAnon </del>participants in a way of seeing <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">– where</del>, of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">course, </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">result </del>is <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the deterritorialization of the world in terms of the QAnon’s </del>conspiratorial worldview. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Towards this end</del>, Q Drops are mined by participants for signification at the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">level </del>of language, data, and meta-data (actual and esoteric) to the point of (but, notably, never reaching) exhaustion.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>People are no longer blind.</blockquote>Rather than being a prophet bearing a revealed truth (and therefore risk reproducing the hierarchies that are seen to characterise the hegemonic episteme), Q is characterised as training participants in a way of seeing<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. Namely</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">a way </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">seeing that scales down the contingencies that produce </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">present into a format which </ins>is <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">compatible with its </ins>conspiratorial worldview. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">At the same time</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the </ins>Q Drops <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">themselves </ins>are <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">additionally </ins>mined by participants for signification at the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">increasingly molecular scales: </ins>of language, data, and meta-data (actual and esoteric) to the point of (but, notably, never reaching) exhaustion.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>From an imaginary that spans thousands of years and encompasses near-all contemporary and historical conspiracy theories to the horde that overwhelmed the US Capitol on the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">6th </del>of January 2020, discourses on the topic of the far-right phenomenon known as ‘QAnon’ are characterised by an immensity which, in turn, suggests that QAnon itself is a commensurately massive product of what this publication terms ‘major tech.’</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>From an imaginary that spans thousands of years and encompasses near-all contemporary and historical conspiracy theories to the horde that overwhelmed the US Capitol on the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">6<sup>th</sup> </ins>of January 2020, discourses on the topic of the far-right phenomenon known as ‘QAnon’ are characterised by an immensity which, in turn, suggests that QAnon itself is a commensurately massive product of what this publication terms ‘major tech.’</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Certainly, QAnon’s myriad articulations across the web represents a major problem for the future of a politics based on mutual intelligibility and was – for a time – exasperated by the scale and reach of the major social media platforms, the contemporary salience of QAnon cannot be understood as a function of major tech. Rather, QAnon is best understood as an assemblage ‘minor techs’: small-scale practices and infrastructures whose granularity produces the conditions for the aggregation that we know as ‘QAnon.’</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Certainly, QAnon’s myriad articulations across the web represents a major problem for the future of a politics based on mutual intelligibility and was – for a time – exasperated by the scale and reach of the major social media platforms, the contemporary salience of QAnon cannot be understood as a function of major tech. Rather, QAnon is best understood as an assemblage ‘minor techs’: small-scale practices and infrastructures whose granularity produces the conditions for the aggregation that we know as ‘QAnon.’</div></td></tr>
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