Conspiracy Panics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Conspiracy Panics write by Jack Z. Bratich. This book was released on 2008-02-07. Conspiracy Panics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. While most other works focus on conspiracy theories, this book examines conspiracy panics, or the anxiety over the phenomenon of conspiracy theories. Jack Z. Bratich argues that conspiracy theories are portals into the major social issues defining U.S. and global political culture. These issues include the rise of new technologies, the social function of journalism, U.S. race relations, citizenship and dissent, globalization, biowarfare and biomedicine, and the shifting positions within the Left. Using a Foucauldian governmentality analysis, Bratich maintains that conspiracy panics contribute to a broader political rationality, a (neo)liberal strategy of governing at a distance through the use of reason. He also explores the growing popularity of 9/11 conspiracy research in terms of what he calls the "sphere of legitimate dissensus." Conspiracy Panics concludes that we are witnessing a new fusion of culture and rationality, one that is increasingly shared across the political spectrum.
Conspiracy Panics
Conspiracy Panics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Conspiracy Panics write by Jack Z. Bratich. This book was released on 2008-02-07. Conspiracy Panics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Examines contemporary anxiety over the phenomenon of conspiracy theories.
Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories in the Age of Trump
Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories in the Age of Trump - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories in the Age of Trump write by Daniel C. Hellinger. This book was released on 2018-09-20. Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories in the Age of Trump available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book focuses on the constant tension between democracy and conspiratorial behavior in the new global order. It addresses the prevalence of conspiracy theories in the phenomenon of Donald Trump and Trumpism, and the paranoid style of American politics that existed long before, first identified with Richard Hofstadter. Hellinger looks critically at both those who hold conspiracy theory beliefs and those who rush to dismiss them. Hellinger argues that we need to acknowledge that the exercise of power by elites is very often conspiratorial and invites both realistic and outlandish conspiracy theories. How we parse the realistic from the outlandish demands more attention than typically accorded in academia and journalism. Tensions between global hegemony and democratic legitimacy become visible in populist theories of conspiracy, both on the left and the right. He argues that we do not live in an age in which conspiracy theories are more profligate, but that we do live in an age in which they offer a more profound challenge to the constituted state than ever before.
The Age of Anxiety
The Age of Anxiety - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Age of Anxiety write by Jane Parish. This book was released on 2001-12-03. The Age of Anxiety available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the assassination of JFK in November 1963 to Watergate and the death of Diana, theories about conspiracies beset popular culture. Television programmes about mysteries and 'inexplicable' events command peak time viewing schedules, reinterpreting 'old' conspiracy theories with new evidence. This book differentiates between conspiracy theory and theories about conspiracies.
Empire of Conspiracy
Empire of Conspiracy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Empire of Conspiracy write by Timothy Melley. This book was released on 2016-12-01. Empire of Conspiracy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Why, Timothy Melley asks, have paranoia and conspiracy theory become such prominent features of postwar American culture? In Empire of Conspiracy, Melley explores the recent growth of anxieties about thought-control, assassination, political indoctrination, stalking, surveillance, and corporate and government plots. At the heart of these developments, he believes, lies a widespread sense of crisis in the way Americans think about human autonomy and individuality. Nothing reveals this crisis more than the remarkably consistent form of expression that Melley calls "agency panic"—an intense fear that individuals can be shaped or controlled by powerful external forces. Drawing on a broad range of forms that manifest this fear—including fiction, film, television, sociology, political writing, self-help literature, and cultural theory—Melley provides a new understanding of the relation between postwar American literature, popular culture, and cultural theory. Empire of Conspiracy offers insightful new readings of texts ranging from Joseph Heller's Catch-22 to the Unabomber Manifesto, from Vance Packard's Hidden Persuaders to recent addiction discourse, and from the "stalker" novels of Margaret Atwood and Diane Johnson to the conspiracy fictions of Thomas Pynchon, William Burroughs, Don DeLillo, and Kathy Acker. Throughout, Melley finds recurrent anxieties about the power of large organizations to control human beings. These fears, he contends, indicate the continuing appeal of a form of individualism that is no longer wholly accurate or useful, but that still underpins a national fantasy of freedom from social control.
