@whitneyphillips.bsky.social
Assistant Prof of Information Politics and Ethics at the University of Oregon's School of Journalism and Communication. I write about quasi-religion & politics at http://populardemonology.substack.com
In @404media.co, @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social looks at @whitneyphillips.bsky.social's Data & Society report "The Oxygen of Amplification" and the lessons it holds for dealing with extremists and manipulators in today's "amplification renaissance.” www.404media.co/we-have-lear...
That is a dynamic we talk about in the book yes!
I'd be so curious to hear more about your experiences but don't want to put you on the spot! For now, again, this is so appreciated, thank you for reading and posting about the book!
Oh thank you Chris! I'm just seeing this message and the responses -- I actually just submitted the full follow-up manuscript to the press, which is why I wasn't checking inboxes/notifications due to overwhelmed editing brain, what a nice surprise to see this! I'm so glad the book resonated
Awesome, thank you!! I'd love to know what you think!
It was so great talking with you, thanks Hagen!! (also the @adriandaub.bsky.social book you recommended was so unbelievably helpful!!) (that should also be a thank you aimed at Adrian himself, I have scribbled excited notes from cover to cover!)
I got to have a great conversation recently about Evangelical political influence and the strange global flows of anti-liberal demonology, thanks @ausnahmsweise.net! (the audio interview is in English)
*Things like trollish style WERE
Yeah there were a couple times in this where things like trollish style was being framed as nascent/emergent within conservatism and I caught myself saying "...New?" Michael Bluth style ("...Her?")
That's really cool! Send me an email to UO address and we can schedule something!!
Oh goodness do I have thoughts on that! That conversation is also part of this book, related to the popularization of demonology. I'd be happy to chat about it sometime if you wanted!
Oh interesting! Our follow-up book (which will be finished this summer) looks at what happens when demonology becomes POPULAR i.e. jumps those walls and starts traipsing through everybody's gardens which is...disorienting to think and write about. What's your dissertation topic?
Hey thank you! What was the focus of the comp list?
Hey awesome! I'd love to know what you think about it
If anybody is puzzled why Mike Johnson's celebratory BBB speech included references to scripture, the radical woke leftists, "common sense," trans people, and why we need to fight the godlessness of Communism/Marxism, have I got a book for you: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255227...
Oh awesome, thanks for ordering! (and for your patience with the mixup!)-- I'd love to know what you think!!
Well, it depends on what you/a person thinks threatens those things. Not every use of those terms is demonological; it is when the threats are attributed to a nebulous definition of "liberal" that is actually a bunch of disconnected things lumped together and made to seem partisan
The piece also highlights how corrosive *demonological* Christianity ("Revelation Lite," where the point is to fight the liberal devil and that's it) is to theological Christianity and how corrosive *demonological* conservatism (same thing, devil devil everywhere) is to ideological conservatism
An excerpt from my new book w @markbrockway.bsky.social that highlights the three different modes of demonological thinking. For example pro-family, pro-speech, pro-America talk sounds positive/common sense but is ultimately pointing to the liberal devil thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/how-demonolo...
But no rush/pressure, only if something seems immediately relevant or easy to link. I'm always curious about how people are engaging with/framing these issues around the globe -- we're facing similar challenges and sometimes the approaches are similar, sometimes very different. Always interesting!
Oh that's really cool! Thank you, I'd be interested to know what kinds of conversations you're having/what those discussions focus on, how they translate into educational contexts, what the fights are about, etc. Do you have any recommendations of folks to follow or things to read?
Tack för delningen! (Jag pratar inte svenska men det gör översättningsappen!)
Hi I've been meaning to reach out!!! Thank you, how are you doing? I cannot wait to read yours!!!!
Oh that's really cool to hear, thank you! What kinds of things have you explored?
It is you who are lovely and smart! Big big hug to you & thanks
Ooh thanks for the intro!! Lots of fun with the devil here
Thank you!!! And nice to see you here (I'm new as of today)
Eek thank you!! What a wild project this was, I really didn't set out to write a book about the semi-secular devil, or about the legacy of Cold War anticommunism, but here we are
The other very important point to note is that the book has little red devil horns on the spine
In addition to upending conventional accounts of political polarization, the politics of resentment, and the culture wars, the book provides a novel framework for understanding DEI panic, attacks on trans existence, and the attempted gutting of the federal government and higher education.