Conspiracy Culture: From Kennedy to The X Files

ISBN-13: 9780415189774 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 300 str.

Peter Knight

Opis

Conspiracy theories are everywhere in postwar American culture. But, where they once served to bolster a sense of identity by imagining the personal and national immune system under threat from a convenient scapegoat, in recent decades Cold War paranoia has been replaced by an increasing insecurity about exactly who or what the enemy is. Conspiracy Culture argues that talk of conspiracy is no longer necessarily the sign of a crackpot delusion, but is an everyday part of our political and cultural life, giving voice to an infinite regress of suspicion about identity, causality and agency.

Spis treści

Preface Introduction: Conspiracy/Theory 1.Conpiracy/Culture 2.Plotting the Kennedy Assassination 3.The Problem with No Name: Feminism and the Figuration of Conspiracy 4.Fear of a Black Planet: Black Paranoia and the Aesthetics of Conspiracy 5.Body Panic 6.Everything Is Connected Afterword

O autorze

Peter Knight is Lecturer in American Studies at the University of Manchester.