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The rhetoric surrounding Trump’s bid has escalated significantly as his legal perils are totalizing.

“They link them together in these super-conspiracy theories that are totalizing, and they give you an understanding of the world, a real us-versus-them thing,” he said.

At the same time, when thinking about this concept of the end of the world, it’s not a totalizing event, it’s more of a spectrum of things that people experience.

But another, more totalizing force was making itself known at the same time: the internet.

“Stephanie has become part of a tradition of artists and cultural workers that poke holes in these overarching and totalizing theories about how things work,” Beckwith said.