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Inlet Hose Hip-hop has become a popular subject of academic discourse, serving as a medium through which members of several disciplinary communities can engage issues of race, representation, aesthetic, gender, class, and performance, to list some of the most frequently evoked topics.This discussion explores the aims and procedures of contemporary
Conspiracy Theories as Alternative Regimes of Truth and as a Universal Socio-Cultural Phenomenon
The paper analyzes the universal phenomenon of conspiracy theories, which, depending on specific social or political circumstances and on the social context in general, exist as cane alternative regimes of truth.In both the institutional and private spheres, conspiracy theories represent a kind of cognitive apparatus by means of which individuals a