ISBN:
9781478025559
,
9781478020813
Language:
English
Pages:
vii, 504 Seiten
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Conspiracy/Theory
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Conspiracy/theory
Keywords:
Conspiracy theories
;
Conspiracy
;
Critical theory
;
Truthfulness and falsehood
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Conspiracy Theories
Abstract:
"Conspiracy/Theory, edited by Joseph Masco and Lisa Wedeen, examines the proliferation of conspiracy theories across the globe, demonstrating across historical periods and state projects the vital place of speculation in making and evaluating collective conditions. The essays explore the genealogical and theoretical overlaps between "conspiracy" and "critical theory," moving beyond a US focus to think in multi-sited and implicitly comparative ways about the conspiracy theories in circulation today. The volume's four sections address central theoretical issues such as knowledge production, community formation, political violence, social control, democracy, and the meaning of engaging in theoretically informed scholarship"--
Description / Table of Contents:
Conspiracy/Theory / Joseph Masco and Lisa Wedeen -- Organizing Fictions -- Impasse and Genre in American Politics and Literature / George Shulman -- Where Did AIDS Come from? / Lochlann Jain -- A False Flag / Joseph Masco -- Conspiratology, Conspiracy Attunement, and Contest: The Case of the President's Body / Elizabeth Anne Davis -- Conspiracy, Theory, and the "Post-Truth" Public Sphere / Timothy Melley -- Atmospheres of Doubt -- On Uncertainty and the Question of Judgment / Lisa Wedeen -- Resonant Apophenia / Susan Lepselter -- The Play of Conspiracy in Plato's Republic / Demetra Kasimis -- An Economy of Suspicion: On the "Military-Civilian Divide" and the New American -- Militarism / Nadia Abu El-Haj -- The Force of Capital -- Conspiracies of Theory: Of Gold in the Shadow of Deindustrialization / Rosalind C. Morris -- Adrian Piper and Alien Conspiracies of Bullying and Whistleblowing / Joseph Dumit -- Humanitarian Profiteering in the Central African Republic as Conspiracy and Rumor / Louisa Lombard -- Confessions of an Accused Conspiracy Theorist: The Financialization of Higher Education / Bob Meister -- The Politics of Enmity -- Conspiracy and Its Curious Afterlives / Faith Hillis -- Comedy of Terrors: Conspiracy Law, National Security Fictions, and the Origins of al-Qa'ida / Darryl Li -- After Muslims: Authority, Suspicion, and Secrecy in the Liberal Democratic State / Hussein Ali Agrama -- Flame and Steel inside the Capitol / Kathleen Belew.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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