Since I only just started reading your work, trying furiously to catch up, starting from last year and working up towards your recent stuff. This one is definitely a cornerstone piece. Dense and comprehensive, frames up your approach quite well. What would you say are your foundational texts for becoming fluent in discerning Disinfolklore from a linguistic and folklore/trope/archetypal aspect? I know your approach is a novel synthesis of multiple disciplines but I’d like to become more proficient.
This is a really good question about which are THE foundational texts @TessaRakt. I will mull it carefully for a while before answering. I’ve read over a 1,500 texts since February 2020 when I started, in earnest, to explore my intuition about Disinfolklore. But the question of which are, say, the ten or twenty most important is one I’ll work on. ‘If I was teaching Disinfolklore as a university course, what is on my reading list’: this is what I’ll turn your question into, if you don’t mind 🤔🫡
I find your framework highly relevant and workable. Something about is quite Jungian and seems to concisely dissect why various trolls resonate with the Collective Subconscious of our “Manuland.” Honestly, it the esoteric aspect of your framework that seems to be missing from so many disinformation and maskirovka expert analyses. If you could take a few days to think about what you would assign as a prof, that would be outstanding and so appreciated!
Since I only just started reading your work, trying furiously to catch up, starting from last year and working up towards your recent stuff. This one is definitely a cornerstone piece. Dense and comprehensive, frames up your approach quite well. What would you say are your foundational texts for becoming fluent in discerning Disinfolklore from a linguistic and folklore/trope/archetypal aspect? I know your approach is a novel synthesis of multiple disciplines but I’d like to become more proficient.
This is a really good question about which are THE foundational texts @TessaRakt. I will mull it carefully for a while before answering. I’ve read over a 1,500 texts since February 2020 when I started, in earnest, to explore my intuition about Disinfolklore. But the question of which are, say, the ten or twenty most important is one I’ll work on. ‘If I was teaching Disinfolklore as a university course, what is on my reading list’: this is what I’ll turn your question into, if you don’t mind 🤔🫡
This is the most important paper that I’ve read lately: The genetic history of the Southern Arc: A bridge between West Asia and Europe: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abm4247
On another note, here I talk about the genesis of Disinfolklore to Silicon Curtain podcast: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xN3JTRpPXSw
I find your framework highly relevant and workable. Something about is quite Jungian and seems to concisely dissect why various trolls resonate with the Collective Subconscious of our “Manuland.” Honestly, it the esoteric aspect of your framework that seems to be missing from so many disinformation and maskirovka expert analyses. If you could take a few days to think about what you would assign as a prof, that would be outstanding and so appreciated!