TY - JOUR PB - SAGE Publications A1 - Haiven, Max A1 - Kingsmith, A.T A1 - Komporozos-Athanasiou, Aris Y1 - 2022/12// IS - 7-8 TI - Interview with Wu Ming 1: QAnon, Collective Creativity, and the (Ab)uses of Enchantment KW - alternate reality games KW - capitalism KW - conspiracy theories KW - counter-games KW - critical theory KW - mythological narratives KW - QAnon SP - 253 UR - https://doi.org/10.1177/02632764221144265 VL - 39 N2 - In this interview with Wu Ming 1, a member of the mysterious but well-known and widely-translated novel-writing Wu Ming Collective, we discuss his new book, La Q di Qomplotto (The Q in Qonspiracy: How Conspiracy Fantasies Defend the System). In the interview, Wu Ming 1 unravels the power of narrative and games in driving conspiracy fantasies and fuelling new forms of activism that have risen to confront a system that gives rise to them. AV - public EP - 268 JF - Theory, Culture and Society: explorations in critical social science N1 - This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). ID - discovery10156421 ER -