The contributors to Conspiracy/Theory evaluate the relationship between critical theory and conspiracy theory as the basis for political thought, showing how people rely on conspiracy theory or critical theory to make sense of complex and confusing events and social crises.
The contributors to Conspiracy/Theory evaluate the relationship between critical theory and conspiracy theory as the basis for political thought, showing how people rely on conspiracy theory or critical theory to make sense of complex and confusing events and social crises.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Joseph Masco is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago and author of The Future of Fallout, and Other Episodes in Radioactive World-Making, also published by Duke University Press. Lisa Wedeen is Mary R. Morton Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago and author of Authoritarian Apprehensions: Ideology, Judgment, and Mourning in Syria.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction: Conspiracy/Theory / Joseph Masco and Lisa Weeden Part I. Organizing Fictions 1. Impasse and Genre in American Politics and Literature / George Shulman 37 2. Where Did AIDS Come from? / Lochlann Jain 61 3. A False Flag / Joseph Masco 81 4. Conspiracy Attunement and Context: The Case of the President’s Body / Elizabeth Anne Davis 104 5. Conspiracy, Theory, and the “Post-Truth” Public Sphere / Timothy Melley 127 Part II. Atmospheres of Doubt 6. On Certainty and the Question of Judgment / Lisa Wedeen 149 7. Resonant Apophenia / Susan Lepselter 174 8. The Play of Conspiracy in Plato’s Republic / Demetra Kasimis 190 9. An Economy of Suspicion: On the “Military-Civilian Divide” and the New American Militarism / Nadia Abu El-Haj 210 Part III. The Force of Capital 10. Conspiracies of Theory: Of Gold in the Shadow of Deindustrialization / Rosalind C. Morris 235 11. Adrian Piper and Alien Conspiracies of Bullying and Whistleblowing / Joseph Dumit 264 12. Humanitarian Profiteering in the Central African Republic as Conspiracy and Rumor / Louisa Lombard 291 13. Confessions of an Accused Conspiracy Theorist: The Financialization of Higher Education / Robert Meister 314 Part IV. The Politics of Enmity 14. Conspiracy and Its Curious Afterlives / Faith Hillis 341 15. Comedy of Terrors: National Security Fictions and the Origins of al-Qa‘ida / Darryl Li 362 16. After Muslims: Authority, Suspicion, and Secrecy in the Liberal Democratic State / Hussein Ali Agrama 386 17. Flame and Steel inside the Capitol / Kathleen Belew 409 Epilogue / Joseph Masco and Lisa Wedeen 425 Acknowledgments 435 References 437 Contributors 483 Index
Introduction: Conspiracy/Theory / Joseph Masco and Lisa Weeden Part I. Organizing Fictions 1. Impasse and Genre in American Politics and Literature / George Shulman 37 2. Where Did AIDS Come from? / Lochlann Jain 61 3. A False Flag / Joseph Masco 81 4. Conspiracy Attunement and Context: The Case of the President’s Body / Elizabeth Anne Davis 104 5. Conspiracy, Theory, and the “Post-Truth” Public Sphere / Timothy Melley 127 Part II. Atmospheres of Doubt 6. On Certainty and the Question of Judgment / Lisa Wedeen 149 7. Resonant Apophenia / Susan Lepselter 174 8. The Play of Conspiracy in Plato’s Republic / Demetra Kasimis 190 9. An Economy of Suspicion: On the “Military-Civilian Divide” and the New American Militarism / Nadia Abu El-Haj 210 Part III. The Force of Capital 10. Conspiracies of Theory: Of Gold in the Shadow of Deindustrialization / Rosalind C. Morris 235 11. Adrian Piper and Alien Conspiracies of Bullying and Whistleblowing / Joseph Dumit 264 12. Humanitarian Profiteering in the Central African Republic as Conspiracy and Rumor / Louisa Lombard 291 13. Confessions of an Accused Conspiracy Theorist: The Financialization of Higher Education / Robert Meister 314 Part IV. The Politics of Enmity 14. Conspiracy and Its Curious Afterlives / Faith Hillis 341 15. Comedy of Terrors: National Security Fictions and the Origins of al-Qa‘ida / Darryl Li 362 16. After Muslims: Authority, Suspicion, and Secrecy in the Liberal Democratic State / Hussein Ali Agrama 386 17. Flame and Steel inside the Capitol / Kathleen Belew 409 Epilogue / Joseph Masco and Lisa Wedeen 425 Acknowledgments 435 References 437 Contributors 483 Index
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