In October of 2017 I was an artist/writer in residence at Para Site, the venerable and remarkable independent art institution in Hong Kong. While at Para Site I was thinking about conspiracy theories and how to take them seriously as symptoms of political exclusion and alienation—as well as sources of cohesion for those who participate in their narration and dissemination (and in so doing puncture the view of reality formed by an official consensus or elite opinion). I’ll return for the second part of the residency in the fall of 2018.