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<journal-id>2594-2999</journal-id>
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<issn>2594-2999</issn>
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<publisher-name><![CDATA[Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social]]></publisher-name>
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<article-id>S2594-29992025000100189</article-id>
<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.29340/en.v8n15.406</article-id>
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<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[Notas sobre conspiracionismo a propósito de los reptilianos y otras creencias en tiempos de covid-19. Una mirada desde los imaginarios inverosímiles en clave castoridiana]]></article-title>
<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[Notes on los reptilianos y otras creencias en tiempos de covid-19 and conspiracy theories: implausible imaginaries from a castoriadis perspective]]></article-title>
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<contrib-group>
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<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Lerma Rodríguez]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Enriqueta]]></given-names>
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<institution><![CDATA[,Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México  ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[ ]]></addr-line>
<country>Mexico</country>
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<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>00</month>
<year>2025</year>
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<day>00</day>
<month>00</month>
<year>2025</year>
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<volume>8</volume>
<numero>15</numero>
<fpage>189</fpage>
<lpage>208</lpage>
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<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S2594-29992025000100189&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S2594-29992025000100189&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S2594-29992025000100189&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[Resumen Se ofrece una reflexión sociológica acerca del origen, sentido y alcances del conspiracionismo inverosímil en el contexto de la emergencia del covid-19. Se hace uso de la propuesta analítica de los imaginarios sociales de Cornelius Castoriadis para problematizar la diferencia entre &#8220;imaginarios plausibles&#8221;: el origen del covid como arma bacteriológica, e &#8220;imaginarios inverosímiles&#8221;: el origen extraterrestre del covid, con el fin de interpretar cómo ha sido posible el incremento de ciertas creencias, entre otras, en reptilianos, illuminatis y extraterrestres, a los que se acusa de pretender dominar el mundo.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[Abstract This piece takes a sociological approach to the origin, meaning, and scopes of implausible conspiracy theories that surfaced during the covid-19 crisis. The Castoriadis theory of the social imaginary is used here to examine the difference between plausible imaginaries (covid as a bacteriological weapon) and implausible imaginaries (covid as an extraterrestrial disease) in order to understand how certain beliefs took hold. Among the beliefs examined are lizard people, illuminati, and aliens, all of whom are accused of trying to take over the world.]]></p></abstract>
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<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[covid-19]]></kwd>
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<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[social imaginaries]]></kwd>
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<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[crisis of meaning]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[COVID-19]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[lizard people]]></kwd>
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