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Format: 1 online resource (488 p.)

ISBN: 9781478027676

Content: In an era of intensified information warfare, ranging from global disinformation campaigns to individual attention hacks, what are the compelling terms for political judgment? How are we to build the knowledge needed to recognize and address important forms of harm when critical information is either not to be trusted or kept hidden? Rather than approach conspiratorial narrative as an irrational response to an obviously decipherable reality, Conspiracy/Theory identifies important affinities between conspiracy theory and critical theory. It recognizes the motivation people have—in their capacities as experts, theorists, and ordinary citizens—to search for patterns in events, to uncover what is covert and attend to dimensions of life that might be hiding in plain sight. If it seems strange that so many find themselves living in incommensurable, disorienting realities, the multidisciplinary contributors to Conspiracy/Theory explore how and why that came to be. Across history and geography, contributors inquire into the affects and imaginaries of political mobilization, tracking counterrevolutionary projects while acknowledging collective futures that demand conspiratorial engagement.Contributors. Nadia Abu El-Haj, Hussein Ali Agrama, Kathleen Belew, Elizabeth Anne Davis, Joseph Dumit, Faith Hillis, Lochlann Jain, Demetra Kasimis, Susan Lepselter, Darryl Li, Louisa Lombard, Joseph Masco, Robert Meister, Timothy Melley, Rosalind C. Morris, George Shulman, Lisa Wedeen

Note: Frontmatter -- , CONTENTS -- , INTRODUCTION: CONSPIRACY / THEORY -- , PART I ORGANIZING FICTIONS -- , 01 IMPASSE AND GENRE IN AMERICAN POLITICS AND LITERATURE -- , 02 WHERE DID AIDS COME FROM? -- , 03 A FALSE FLAG -- , 04 CONSPIRACY ATTUNEMENT AND CONTEXT / THE CASE OF THE PRESIDENT’S BODY -- , 05 CONSPIRACY, THEORY, AND THE “POST-TRUTH” PUBLIC SPHERE -- , PART II ATMOSPHERES OF DOUBT -- , 06 ON UNCERTAINTY AND THE QUESTION OF JUDGMENT -- , 07 RESONANT APOPHENIA -- , 08 THE PLAY OF CONSPIRACY IN PLATO’S REPUBLIC -- , 09 AN ECONOMY OF SUSPICION / ON THE “MILITARY-CIVILIAN DIVIDE” AND THE NEW AMERICAN MILITARISM -- , PART III THE FORCE OF CAPITAL -- , 10 CONSPIRACIES OF THEORY / OF GOLD IN THE SHADOW OF DEINDUSTRIALIZATION -- , 11 ADRIAN PIPER AND ALIEN CONSPIRACIES OF BULLYING AND WHISTLEBLOWING -- , 12 HUMANITARIAN PROFITEERING IN THE CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC AS CONSPIRACY AND RUMOR -- , 13 CONFESSIONS OF AN ACCUSED CONSPIRACY THEORIST / THE FINANCIALIZATION OF HIGHER EDUCATION -- , PART IV THE POLITICS OF ENMITY -- , 14 CONSPIRACY AND ITS CURIOUS AFTERLIVES -- , 15 COMEDY OF TERRORS / NATIONAL SECURITY FICTIONS AND THE ORIGINS OF AL-QA‘ IDA -- , 16 AFTER MUSLIMS / AUTHORITY, SUSPICION, AND SECRECY IN THE LIBERAL DEMOCRATIC STATE -- , 17 FLAME AND STEEL INSIDE THE CAPITOL -- , EPILOGUE -- , ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- , REFERENCES -- , CONTRIBUTORS -- , CONTRIBUTORS , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9781478027676

URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781478027676?locatt=mode:legacy

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781478027676