This article reviews anthropological explorations of conspiracy theories—in dialogue with insights from other disciplines, primarily political science, philosophy, and social psychology—to frame conspiracy theories as productive social practices. While conspiracy theories are often depicted through their epistemological shortcomings and associated with social and political margins, this article traces the nascent threads across anthropological scholarship to reach an emic understanding of those narratives and their sociopolitical reverberations and proposes approaching conspiracy theories through their style, agentive implications, and political effects. Conspiratorial style, the article argues, pertains not to the content of the narrative but to its incessant seeking of covert operations beyond readily visible forms as well as a growing flexibility regarding the narrator's belief in the narrative's veracity. The agentivizing dynamic generated through conspiracism differentiates contemporary conspiracism from its predecessors and involves an empowering dynamic. Finally, the article focuses on how contemporary conspiracism is intricately linked to political contestations.

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作为生产实践的阴谋论：走向阴谋风格、代理和政治的理论


本文回顾了人类学对阴谋论的探索——与其他学科（主要是政治学、哲学和社会心理学）的见解进行对话——将阴谋论构建为富有成效的社会实践。虽然阴谋论经常通过其认识论缺陷并与社会和政治边缘相关联来描述，但本文追溯了人类学学术中的新生线索，以对这些叙述及其社会政治影响达成主位理解，并建议通过阴谋论的风格、主体含义来探讨阴谋论和政治影响。文章认为，阴谋风格并不涉及叙事的内容，而是涉及其不断寻求超越显而易见的形式的秘密行动，以及叙述者对叙事真实性的信念日益增长的灵活性。阴谋主义产生的主体化动力将当代阴谋主义与其前辈区分开来，并涉及一种赋权动力。最后，本文重点讨论当代阴谋主义如何与政治争论错综复杂地联系在一起。