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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Melley, Timothy, 1963- Empire of conspiracy. Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2000 (OCoLC)747305305 |
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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Timothy Melley |
| ISBN: | 0801436680 9780801436680 0801486068 9780801486067 |
| OCLC Number: | 42002750 |
| Description: | ix, 239 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction: The Culture of Paranoia -- The Depth Boys -- Agency Panic -- Crises of Interpretation -- Bodily Symptoms, Cultural Pathologies -- Influencing Machines -- Postmodern Transference -- The Representation of Social Control -- Bureaucracy and Its Discontents -- The New Line of Americans -- Social Characters -- Paranoid Prescriptions -- The Shadow of the Firm -- Anti-Socialism -- Bureaucratic Individuals -- Syndicate-Nation -- Bodies Incorporated -- Incoming Mail -- The Body We Can Measure -- Pornographies of Deduction -- Statistical Oddities -- Personalities Replaced by Abstractions of Power -- Stalked by Love -- Alien Invaders -- Female Paranoia -- A Distrust of Surfaces -- Abnormally Normal -- Anonymous Effects -- Secret Agents -- Lone Gunman and Social Body -- Archaeological Details -- A Cardboard Cutout -- The Secrets of the Masses -- Central Intelligence -- The Logic of Addiction -- Bad Habits -- Control Addicts -- The Junk Virus -- Cellular Panic -- Reconditioning Centers -- Epilogue: Corporate Futures -- Postmodern Constructs -- Artificial Intelligence -- In Memoriam to Memory. |
| Responsibility: | Timothy Melley. |
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