Resumen de La terza prova: l’Antroposofia in Italia e la Covid-19. Fenomenologia spirituale di una contro-narrazione
The Third Trial: Anthroposophy in Italy and Covid-19. Spiritual Phenomenology of a CounterNarrative · Anthroposophy is the spiritual and esoteric current conceived by the Austrian philosopher Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925) after his experience in the Theosophical Society established by Helena Petrovna Blavatski (1831-1891). This paper focuses on the digital ethnography and the content analysis of a sample of independent anthroposophical social network production, analysing the 2021 Facebook posts of ten users selected on the basis of the cohesion and pre-eminence principle. Moving from these data and from the theoretical premises of independent Italian anthroposophy, I aim to discuss the epistemological status of its peculiar epidemiological counter-narrative, its socio-political implications and the role of conspiracy narratives within the contemporary spirituality frame. The specific feature emerging from the analysis is that of a narrative in which political power – mediumistic in its very nature – would be nothing more than an automaton acting for global economic elites, in their turn being tools in the hands of supernatural hindering entities. In this perspective, the social network production conveys a complex set of paradigmatic narratives in which the dynamics of re-sharing and amplification feed not only the internal semantic circuit, but also the offline social environment the actors belong to.
