%0 Journal Article
%T The Repositories of the Non-knowledge. Towards a Paranoiac Hermeneutics
%A Brzostek, Dariusz
%J Arts & Cultural Studies Review
%V 2017
%R 10.4467/20843860PK.17.011.7359
%N Issue 2 (32)
%P 156-175
%K Internet, non-knowledge, paranoiac interpretation, overinterpretation
%@ 1895-975X
%D 2017
%U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/przeglad-kulturoznawczy/article/repozytoria-nie-wiedzy-w-strone-hermeneutyki-paranoicznej
%X 
	This paper focuses on the problem of the non-knowledge and paranoiac hermeneutics in the Internet. This is constructivist and Lacanian approach to interpreting this problem, because the interpretive communities construct knowledge and collaboratively create a small web culture with the words of final vocabulary with shared meanings. According to Umberto Eco’s theory of paranoiac interpretation and Jacques Lacan’s explanation of paranoia the result of the overinterpretation is perfect, coherent world founded on the hermetic knowledge (secret, unoffi cial or antiscience). The Internet interpretive communities prefer “to not know” (as Jacques Lacan said – ne rien vouloir savoir), refuse official, mainstream science and choose the antiscientific approach to the process of accumulating and sharing knowledge (conspiracy theories, witchcraft, alternative medicine) to explain the reality.