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Genre/Form: | Kongress Criticism, interpretation, etc History |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Peter Knight |
ISBN: | 0814747353 9780814747353 0814747361 9780814747360 |
OCLC Number: | 48241266 |
Language Note: | English. |
Description: | viii, 278 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Introduction: A nation of conspiracy theorists / Peter Knight -- Spinning paranoia: the ideologies of conspiracy and contingency in postmodern culture / Skip Willman -- A poor person's cognitive mapping / Fran Mason -- Agency panic and the culture of conspiracy / Timothy Melley -- If anything is possible / Jodi Dean -- My body is not my own: personalizing disempowerment in alien abduction narratives / Bridget Brown -- Injections and truth serums: AIDS conspiracy / Jack Bratich -- White hope: conspiracy, nationalism, and revolution in the Turner diaries and Hunter / Ingrid Walker Fields -- All eyez on me: the paranoid style of Tupac Shakur -- Douglas Kellner, The X-files and conspiracy: a diagnostic critique / Eithne Quinn -- The commodification of conspiracy theories / Clare Birchall -- Forget conspiracy: Pynchon, Delillo, and the conventional counterconspiracy narrative / John McClure. |
Series Title: | Riverside textbooks in education |
Responsibility: | edited by Peter Knight. |
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Abstract:
Placing conspiracy theory at the centre of American history, and challenging the knee-jerk dismissal of conspiratorial thought as deluded and sometimes dangerous, "Conspiracy Nation" provides a wide-ranging survey of conspiracy theories in America.
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"A rich and diverse collection." * Journal of American Studies * "Conspiracy Nation is thus better read as an introduction to theory about conspiracy theory, better read as a network of seemingly heterogeneous concerns and anxieties that are conspicuously and often secretly linked by so many academic masters." * Rhetoric & Public Affairs * Read more...

