Pizzagate: From Rumor to Delusion

“Pizzagate: From Rumor to Delusion” is an experimental documentary that uses what Neidich refers to as the QAnon documentary style found on Youtube in order to discuss our post-truth society. To do this he focuses on the  Pizzagate fake news scandal which took place during the 2016 American presidential campaign.  . The Pizzagate rumor was a conspiracy theory that went viral and falsely accused  Hillary Clinton and her 2016’s campaign associates of of running a child sex ring based in the basement of the  Comet Ping Pong pizza parlor in Washington D.C. As a consequence some have suggested that she lost the presidential election.  The owner, James Alefantis and the  staff of the pizzeria have been  harassed and even been victims of a  gun shooting. Warren Neidich’s work associates the Pizzagate incident to the Society of the  Spectacle and cognitive capitalism in which the mind and brain have become the new factories of the 21st society. The mental laborer or cognitariat is subject to new dispositifs of power some of which act directly on the material brain.