Battling Archetypes
Battling Archetypes applies the Twelve Tools of the Disinfolklore analytical method to the folkloric structures hiding inside modern propaganda, memes, and geopolitics.
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Podcast | Grass Whispering Infolklore (opens the original)
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Principles of Infolklore (Ep 6) Let’s go back to the principles of Infolklore . Some of you will remember how I am deducing The principles of Infolklore . Previous episodes: Ep 1 - Aug 20 Ep 2 - Aug 27 Ep 3 - 3 Sept Ep 4 - 10 Sept Ep 5 - 17 Sept I use a combination of my own written work, what scholars would call a vocabulary. I use that as a lens to look at the transcripts of Volya Radio, of RIA Melitopol and of RIA Pivden. I had noticed that they are particularly interesting artefacts. They ap
Podcast | Demon of the Moon (Ep 2): Over the Longue Durée (opens the original)
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Some of you will remember what I’m doing. I’m deducing, from transcripts, from millions of words of Volya Radio transcripts, what I call the principles of Infolklore. I have re-recorded this podcast, due to audio issues with the original recording of 16 September. I’ve posted it as two parts. This is the second part. The first part is here . Continued from : Infolklore, I remind you, is not just the opposite of Disinfolklore. It’s a positive creative practice. I try to practise it. Most of us pr
Podcast | The Demon of the Moon (Ep 1) (opens the original)
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So let’s start with the beginning of chapter three of Outflank Dugin, Don’t Rebut . This is the sixth part of my show reveal of that monograph. That integrates the twelve tools of the Disinfolklore analytical method, applied to the Rashist state apparatus. I have re-recorded this podcast, due to audio issues with the original recording of 16 September. I’ll post it as two parts. This is the first part. The second is here . Continued from : The Disinfolklore analytical method has twelve tools. Th
Podcast | Mana-stripping through monikoring (opens the original)
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AfD’s Don’t poke the bear troll - final part of Chapter Three of Outflank Dugin In 2024 Alice Weidel, co-leader of the AfD, at that point the second largest party in the Bundestag, gave a parliamentary speech. Germany’s continued military support for Ukraine, she said, was poking the bear. The bear, Russia, had legitimate security interests in its near abroad. The West’s expansion of NATO since 1991 had been a provocation. Responsible German statecraft would consist of stepping back and acknowle
Podcast | The Sberbank Troll & Infolklore (week 3) (opens the original)
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Part One. The Christening of the Sberbank Report Some of us might have seen last week a new character entered into our information space, and its Mana, its energy, doesn’t match its name. This is a core element in the Disinfolklore analytical method, so we can all learn how to do this . That when we see or perceive some piece of information warfare, we look for the Mana in the meme, and then we see if the name of that energy suits it. So if Donald says he wants peace while bombing Iran, then the
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